There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
B. B. KINGI don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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 guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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