Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
B. B. KINGWater from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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 do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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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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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 don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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