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. KINGMany people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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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’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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I’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
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