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. KINGNobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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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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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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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 can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.
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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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