Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
B. B. KINGI’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
More B. B. King Quotes
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I don’t do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
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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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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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I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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 can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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