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B. B King Quotes

B. B King

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.

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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

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Touring a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

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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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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet – I just like music.

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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

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