B. B. King Quotes - Page 4

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• Being a blues singer is like being black two times.

  B. B. King

  Two, Black, Singers

  Quoted in TheWit and Wisdom of Rock and Roll, ed. Maxim Jabukowski (1983)

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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.

  B. B. King

  Couple, Dollars, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' till I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your restroom is not inside the house.

  B. B. King

  Money, Men, House

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• The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.

  B. B. King

  Depressing, Player, Guitar

  Source: blankonblank.org

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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.

  B. B. King

  Thinking, Worry, People

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• I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

  B. B. King

  Singers, Married, Being Married

  "B.B. King: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. 2005.

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• It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.

  B. B. King

  Nice, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though.

  B. B. King

  Music, Christian, Impact

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• I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt, who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and a few others.

  B. B. King

  Mother, Aunt, People

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• I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.

  B. B. King

  Wine, Beer, Politics

  Song: Recession Blues

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• I 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!

  B. B. King

  Kings, Cutting, Guitar

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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.

  B. B. King

  Kings, Play, Guy

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• Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

  B. B. King

  Music, Son, Men

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• A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it. When someone do say something negative, most times I think about it, but it don't bother me that much.

  B. B. King

  Cancer, Thinking, People

  Source: blankonblank.org

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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.

  B. B. King

  Trying, Singers, Entertainers

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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

  Men, Guitar, Singers

  "BB King at 87: the last of the great bluesmen" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

  B. B. King

  Kings, Men, Names

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• Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

  B. B. King

  Unique, Pity

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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.

  B. B. King

  Mom, Saws, My Mom

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.

  B. B. King

  Children, Giving, Want

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• My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

  B. B. King

  Beautiful, Mother, Player

  Source: www.pbs.org

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