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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

B. B. King

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you’re going to the bank to borrow money.
B. B. KING

Bank Goodness Money People Sing Yourself
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
B. B. KING

Connection Guitar Myself Try Voice
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
B. B. KING

Death Music People Problem
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!
B. B. KING

Cry Guitarist Happy Myself Place Play
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING

Care Humiliate Myself Remember
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.
B. B. KING

Better Goodness Guitar Himself Music Myself Play
The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
B. B. KING

Laughter Live Love Music
I 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.
B. B. KING

Believe Care Greatness Ourselves Thinking Treat
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.
B. B. KING

Brother College Learning Man Music Myself Play
Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
B. B. KING

Blood Brother Music Myself
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
B. B. KING

Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
B. B. KING

Black Sing Time
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
B. B. KING

Hard Work Room Scale Sleep Try
You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
B. B. KING

Life Missing Yourself
It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
B. B. KING

Instrument Music Myself Play Style Way
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
B. B. KING

Creation Myself Sound

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