I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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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.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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 don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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 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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