And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
B. B. KINGGod made Blues right after he made woman.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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 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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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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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I 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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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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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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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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 are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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 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 try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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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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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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