I’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
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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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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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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’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.
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You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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