Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
B. B. KINGWe 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.
More B. B. King Quotes
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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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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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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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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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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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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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