Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KINGIt 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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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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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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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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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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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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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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We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
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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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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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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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Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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