I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
B. B. KINGIt 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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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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I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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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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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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I never use that word, retire.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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