Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
B. B. KINGI guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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.
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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 call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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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 don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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.
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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 don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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