I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
B. B. KINGIt seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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’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 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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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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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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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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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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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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