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. KINGThe 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.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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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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I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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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’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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