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.
B. B. KINGEverybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
More B. B. King Quotes
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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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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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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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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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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