I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KINGThe beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
More B. B. King Quotes
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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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I never use that word, retire.
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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 think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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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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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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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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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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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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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A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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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A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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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’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.
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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 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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Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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