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.
B. B. KINGAnd as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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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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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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I never use that word, retire.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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I can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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