The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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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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 don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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 wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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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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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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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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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.
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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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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 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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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.
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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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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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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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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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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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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