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. KINGA guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
More B. B. King Quotes
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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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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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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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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 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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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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