It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is … - B. B. King

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B. B. King

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. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton. . . oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

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