I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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.
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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 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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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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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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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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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 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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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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