The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
B. B. KINGAlbert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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I don’t do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
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Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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