God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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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’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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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.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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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 don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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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 look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
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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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