Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
B. B. KINGThe Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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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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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 don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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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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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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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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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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