There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
B. B. KINGKenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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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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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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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 don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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I don’t do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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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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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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