The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
B. B. KINGI call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
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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 call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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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.
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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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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 sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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