When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KINGLadies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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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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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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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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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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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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If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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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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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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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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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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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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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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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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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’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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 can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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