I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KINGThe blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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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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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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 call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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 can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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 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.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you’re going to the bank to borrow money.
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