The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KINGI’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.
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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
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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 don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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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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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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