A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KINGI’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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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 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 don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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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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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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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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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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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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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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