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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

B. B. King

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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Care Idol Play Try Yourself
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
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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Creation Myself Sound
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
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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Death God Leaving Myself Prayer Sleep Stage Way
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Connection Emotional Guitar Human
I never use that word, retire.
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Myself Retirement Word
I’d rather be B.B. King. That’s the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other … I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
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Better heavy Myself Play Start Way
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom
Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
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Joint Money Myself Time
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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Feeling Freedom Lunch Myself Pay Responsibility
When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.
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Ground Money Place Worry Yourself
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
Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Guitar One Liner Play Truth
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Children Myself Yourself
You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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Life Missing Yourself
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Acceptance Death Heaven Hypocrisy Irony Journey
Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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Beautiful Country Leaving Myself People Scene
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Black Sing Time
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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People Song Way Yourself
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Death Music People Problem
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
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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Family Hard Time Hurt Myself Necessary People Possible
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
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Greatness Guitar Himself World
The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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Beginning Mom Music Source

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

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