Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
B. B. KINGWhen I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
More B. B. King Quotes
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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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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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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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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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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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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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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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