God made Blues right after he made woman.
B. B. KINGI gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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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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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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 never use that word, retire.
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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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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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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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 are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
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