There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
B. B. KINGThe beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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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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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I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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 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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God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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