Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
B. B. KINGAlbert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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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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.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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I never use that word, retire.
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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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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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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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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I’d rather be B.B. King. That’s the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other … I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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 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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