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.
B. B. KINGLadies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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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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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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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When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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 was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
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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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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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