It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
B. B. KINGIf 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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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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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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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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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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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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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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I 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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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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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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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