A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
B. B. KINGI’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
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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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I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
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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’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
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Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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