I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KINGI’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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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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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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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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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Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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