Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
B. B. KINGA lot of people believe what other people say.
More B. B. King Quotes
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
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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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It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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I never use that word, retire.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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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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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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