I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
B. B. KINGGod made Blues right after he made woman.
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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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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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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 blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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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I never use that word, retire.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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