You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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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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 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 are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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I never use that word, retire.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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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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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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When 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!
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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