God made Blues right after he made woman.
B. B. KINGI don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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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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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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