It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
B. B. KINGPlaying guitar is like telling the truth.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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 do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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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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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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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 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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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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