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.
B. B. KINGI guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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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 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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I’d rather be B.B. King. That’s the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other … I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
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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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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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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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