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B. B King Quotes

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

Anymore Blue Blues Play Then Tonic Whatever You

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People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was – and loved it all.

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.

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

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.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street – you live in Time Square, you know how they do it – they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

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.

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

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