Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
B. B. KINGI’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.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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 guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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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 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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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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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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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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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