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. KINGA lot of people believe what other people say.
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Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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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 wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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When I was young, I didn’t play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I’ve reached. Think what they might do over time.
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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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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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