Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
B. B. KINGI tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
More B. B. King Quotes
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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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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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We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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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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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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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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.
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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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