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.
B. B. KINGJazz 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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
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