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.
B. B. KINGWhen 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!
More B. B. King Quotes
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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’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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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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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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