I’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
B. B. KINGElvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
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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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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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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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 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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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