Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KINGI’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.
More B. B. King Quotes
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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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 guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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When I was young, I didn’t play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I’ve reached. Think what they might do over time.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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