I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KINGI’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I’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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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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 been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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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