Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
B. B. KINGIf you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
More B. B. King Quotes
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.
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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 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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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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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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You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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I never use that word, retire.
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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’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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