Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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 think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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I can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.
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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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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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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 don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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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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