I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
B. B. KINGI’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 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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The 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.
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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I never use that word, retire.
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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
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