If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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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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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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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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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