God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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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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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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’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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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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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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