If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KINGThe crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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When I was young, I didn’t play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I’ve reached. Think what they might do over time.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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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Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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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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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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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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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
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