Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
B. B. KINGHard 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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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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I never use that word, retire.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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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’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
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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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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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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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