You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
B. B. KINGThere are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
More B. B. King Quotes
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I’d rather be B.B. King. That’s the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other … I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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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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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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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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I never use that word, retire.
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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