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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.

B. B. King

Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
B. B. KING

Herself Love Lying Mom
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.
B. B. KING

Audience Kind Myself Night Personality Time
I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING

Entertainment Myself Sing Try
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
B. B. KING

Friendship Music Myself
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!
B. B. KING

Death God Leaving Myself Prayer Sleep Stage Way
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.
B. B. KING

Brother College Learning Man Music Myself Play
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.
B. B. KING

Better Goodness Guitar Himself Music Myself Play
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.
B. B. KING

Ground Money Place Worry Yourself
I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
B. B. KING

Angry Friendship Myself
Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
B. B. KING

Blood Brother Music Myself
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
B. B. KING

Children Myself Yourself
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
B. B. KING

Education Oneself Yourself
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

Acceptance Death Heaven Hypocrisy Irony Journey
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.
B. B. KING

Hard Work Room Scale Sleep Try
I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING

Divorce Marriage Myself Woman
It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
B. B. KING

Contribution Himself Music People Realization

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