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.
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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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 think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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.
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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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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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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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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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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 wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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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When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.
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