When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
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.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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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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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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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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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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