Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
B. B. KINGA guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
More B. B. King Quotes
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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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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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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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When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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If 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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The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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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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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