It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
B. B. KINGI’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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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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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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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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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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