I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KINGI 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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I’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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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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When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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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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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