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.
B. B. KINGA guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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I can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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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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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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
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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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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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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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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