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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.

B. B. King

I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING

Divorce Marriage Myself Woman
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.
B. B. KING

Brother College Learning Man Music Myself Play
Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
B. B. KING

Acceptance Evidence Explanation Natural People Problem Religion Universe
Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
B. B. KING

Family Hard Time Hurt Myself Necessary People Possible
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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Joint Money Myself Time
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
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.
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Day Music Myself People Price Record Stop
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. KING

Feeling Freedom Lunch Myself Pay Responsibility
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
B. B. KING

Children Myself Yourself
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

Acceptance Death Heaven Hypocrisy Irony Journey
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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Believe Care Greatness Ourselves Thinking Treat
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Day Forever Live Myself
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.
B. B. KING

Happiness Kind Music Sadness Yourself
I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING

Guess Man Myself Name Old
I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Knowledge Man Myself Thinking Wisdom

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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