I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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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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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.
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I’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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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!
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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.
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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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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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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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
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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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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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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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