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 can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
More B. B. King Quotes
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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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 do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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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