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.
B. B. KINGThere’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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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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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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I never use that word, retire.
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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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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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 can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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’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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