Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
B. B. KINGIf 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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I don’t do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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 blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
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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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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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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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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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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