The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
B. B. KINGI do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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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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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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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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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I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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I never use that word, retire.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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When I was young, I didn’t play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I’ve reached. Think what they might do over time.
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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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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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