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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.

B. B. King

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Connection Emotional Guitar Human
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Greatness Guitar Himself World
You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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Life Missing Yourself
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Education Oneself Yourself
I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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Angry Friendship Myself
God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Creation God Music Woman
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
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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Mindset Myself Oral Play Sing
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Friendship Guitar Myself Old
There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
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Happiness Kind Music Sadness Yourself
I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
B. B. KING

Feeling Freedom Lunch Myself Pay Responsibility
The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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Laughter Live Love Music
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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Day Music Myself People Price Record Stop
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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Ground Money Place Worry Yourself
If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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People Song Way Yourself
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk

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’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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