Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
B. B. KINGA lot of people believe what other people say.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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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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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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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