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.
B. B. KINGThe beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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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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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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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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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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 guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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