Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
B. B. KINGKenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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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 do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
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I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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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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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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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 never use that word, retire.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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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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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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