It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
B. B. KINGI don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
More B. B. King Quotes
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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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.
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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 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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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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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