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. KINGI don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
More B. B. King Quotes
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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I never use that word, retire.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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