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.
B. B. KINGIt’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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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.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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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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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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 beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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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 thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.
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