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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.

B. B. King

I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING

Guess Man Myself Name Old
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.
B. B. KING

Children Myself Play Reach Start Time Young
I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
B. B. KING

Feeling Love Passion Performance Show
I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. KING

Count Missing Myself Play
I don’t do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
B. B. KING

Day Music Myself People Price Record Stop
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.
B. B. KING

Ground Money Place Worry Yourself
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

Black Foundation Taste Water White
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

Acceptance Death Heaven Hypocrisy Irony Journey
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.
B. B. KING

Children Love Music People Problem See Shame Yourself
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.
B. B. KING

Happiness Kind Music Sadness Yourself
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
B. B. KING

Friendship Guitar Myself Old
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING

Blue Call Guitar Man Myself Sing
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
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
B. B. KING

Black Sing Time
It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
B. B. KING

Contribution Himself Music People Realization
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.
B. B. KING

Family Hard Time Hurt Myself Necessary People Possible

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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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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