I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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 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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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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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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