I don’t do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
B. B. KINGI don’t do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
More B. B. King Quotes
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I never use that word, retire.
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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 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 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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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 Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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It 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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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
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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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