Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
B. B. KINGI call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
More B. B. King Quotes
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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