B. B. King Quotes About Singing
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.
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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.
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When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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