Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
B. B. KINGWhen I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
More B. B. King Quotes
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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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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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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.
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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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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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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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I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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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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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you’re going to the bank to borrow money.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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