B. B. King Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
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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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“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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“Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.”
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“Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.”
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“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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“It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.”
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“I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.”
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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 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'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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“Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.”
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“If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.”
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“I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness.”
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“I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.”
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“The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.”
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“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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“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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“Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.”
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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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“You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.”
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“Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues,' they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I'm trying to satisfy.”
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“I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.”
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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 I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.”
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“I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.”
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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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