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.
B. B. KINGI 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 call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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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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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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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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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 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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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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