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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.

B. B. King

I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

Myself Perspective Steal Thinking
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
B. B. KING

Hard Work Room Scale Sleep Try
The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
B. B. KING

Laughter Live Love Music
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
B. B. KING

Cry Guitarist Happy Myself Place Play
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING

Care Humiliate Myself Remember
I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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Entertainment Myself Sing Try
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. KING

Count Missing Myself Play
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
B. B. KING

Creation Myself Sound
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
B. B. KING

Care Idol Play Try Yourself
God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Creation God Music Woman
May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
B. B. KING

Day Forever Live Myself
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
B. B. KING

Herself Love Lying Mom
When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING

Mindset Myself Oral Play Sing
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Children Myself Yourself
I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
B. B. KING

Feeling Love Passion Performance Show
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.
B. B. KING

Better heavy Myself Play Start Way
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
B. B. KING

Friendship Music Myself
If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING

People Song Way Yourself
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING

Blood Connection Music Myself
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.
B. B. KING

Day Music Myself People Price Record Stop
I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
B. B. KING

Goodness Horrible Music Myself
The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
B. B. KING

Beginning Mom Music Source
I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
B. B. KING

Knowledge Man Myself Thinking Wisdom
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING

Beautiful Inspirational Learning Motivational Yourself
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
B. B. KING

Education Oneself Yourself
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you’re going to the bank to borrow money.
B. B. KING

Bank Goodness Money People Sing Yourself

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