I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
B. B. KINGWhen 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 can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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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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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
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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 was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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