We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
B. B. KINGThe beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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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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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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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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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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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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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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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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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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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