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.
B. B. KINGLadies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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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 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 think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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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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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When I was young, I didn’t play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I’ve reached. Think what they might do over time.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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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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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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