Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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.
More B. B. King Quotes
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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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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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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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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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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