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. KINGI don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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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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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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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’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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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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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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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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 think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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