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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

B. B. King

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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Connection Guitar Myself Try Voice
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Children Myself Yourself
It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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Instrument Music Myself Play Style Way
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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Death Goodness Time Live Yourself
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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Brother College Learning Man Music Myself Play
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Black Sing Time
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Death Music People Problem
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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Mindset Myself Oral Play Sing
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
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Feeling Good Health Myself People Way
If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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People Song Way Yourself
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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Day Music Myself People Price Record Stop
I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
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Hard Work Room Scale Sleep Try
Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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Goodness Music Myself Savage Thinking

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

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