Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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.
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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 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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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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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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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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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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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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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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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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