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.
B. B. KINGLadies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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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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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 don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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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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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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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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 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 never use that word, retire.
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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 to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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