Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
B. B. KINGKenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
More B. B. King Quotes
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Education is the one thing that no one can take 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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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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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 don’t do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
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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 I was young, I didn’t play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I’ve reached. Think what they might do over time.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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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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