God made Blues right after he made woman.
B. B. KINGA day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
More B. B. King Quotes
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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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Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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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 do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.
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It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
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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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