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.
B. B. KINGThere’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.
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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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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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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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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 wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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