I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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I’d rather be B.B. King. That’s the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other … I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
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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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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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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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There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
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When I was young, I didn’t play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I’ve reached. Think what they might do over time.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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