It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
B. B. KINGThe blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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 blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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