I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could … - B. B. King

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Nationalism. . . is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

B. B. King

I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.

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