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. 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’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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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’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’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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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