Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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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 try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I never use that word, retire.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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!
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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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