I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KINGThe blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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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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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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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