We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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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There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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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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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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When I was young, I didn’t play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I’ve reached. Think what they might do over time.
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I’d rather be B.B. King. That’s the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other … I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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