I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
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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 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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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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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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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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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.
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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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