A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
B. B. KINGYou never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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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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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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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 just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.
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It 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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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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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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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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