Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KINGI 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’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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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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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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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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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 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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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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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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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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