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B. B King Quotes

B. B King

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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I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

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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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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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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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The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!

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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.

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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

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

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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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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

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