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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

B. B. King

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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Brother College Learning Man Music Myself Play
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Friendship Guitar Myself Old
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Acceptance Death Heaven Hypocrisy Irony Journey
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Greatness Guitar Himself World
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Black Sing Time
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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Mindset Myself Oral Play Sing
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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Joint Money Myself Time
Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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Blood Brother Music Myself
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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Hard Work Room Scale Sleep Try
It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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Instrument Music Myself Play Style Way
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
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.
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Beautiful Lady Life Myself Start Woman
Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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Beautiful Country Leaving Myself People Scene
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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Death Goodness Time Live Yourself
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Myself Perspective Steal Thinking
I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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Count Missing Myself Play
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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Children Myself Play Reach Start Time Young
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Education Oneself Yourself
Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Guitar One Liner Play Truth
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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Death God Leaving Myself Prayer Sleep Stage Way
I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
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Audience Kind Myself Night Personality Time
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.
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Children Love Music People Problem See Shame Yourself
I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Connection Emotional Guitar Human
I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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Guess Man Myself Name Old

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

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