The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KINGI 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!
More B. B. King Quotes
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you’re going to the bank to borrow money.
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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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get 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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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