I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KINGA day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
More B. B. King Quotes
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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 don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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 never use that word, retire.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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