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B. B King Quotes

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.

Everything Go Go For It Me Songs Sound Suit Try

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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.

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.

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.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here – like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things – but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people – like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

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If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation.

I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

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