When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
B. B. KINGIt just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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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 blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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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 never use that word, retire.
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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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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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