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B. B King Quotes

B. B King

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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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

B. B King

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

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I used to play – when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.

B. B King

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

B. B King

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

B. B King

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton… oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

B. B King

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street – you live in Time Square, you know how they do it – they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.

B. B King

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

B. B King

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

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