Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
B. B. KINGGrowing 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.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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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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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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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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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 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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When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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 gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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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