I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KINGThe 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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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 can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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.
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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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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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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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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 don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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