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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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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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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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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 think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.
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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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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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I never use that word, retire.
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If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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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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I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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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.
Written by B. B. King

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