I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
B. B. KINGI do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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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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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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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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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 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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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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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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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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