When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KINGYou only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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 gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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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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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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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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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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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