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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

B. B. King

I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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Guess Man Myself Name Old
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Friendship Music Myself
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
If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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People Song Way Yourself
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
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Appreciation Crowd Myself Name People Treat
I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Myself Perspective Steal Thinking
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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Happiness Kind Music Sadness Yourself
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Greatness Guitar Himself World
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
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Audience Kind Myself Night Personality Time
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
God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Creation God Music Woman
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
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Connection Emotional Guitar Human

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