I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KINGI can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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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 like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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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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When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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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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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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