I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
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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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Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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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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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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I don’t do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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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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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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