We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
B. B. KINGMusic 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.
More B. B. King Quotes
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I never use that word, retire.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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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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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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’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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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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 gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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 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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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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