The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KINGNobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
More B. B. King Quotes
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Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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 like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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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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 Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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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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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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