Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
B. B. KINGThe Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
More B. B. King Quotes
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I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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I’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
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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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I’d rather be B.B. King. That’s the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other … I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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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Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.
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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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