I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KINGGod made Blues right after he made woman.
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I’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
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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’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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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I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don’t know how much I appreciate it.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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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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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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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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 never use that word, retire.
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