I can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.
B. B. KINGKenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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.
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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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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find 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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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