Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KINGThe blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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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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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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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you’re going to the bank to borrow money.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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