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B. B King Quotes

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

Better Black Fountain Water White White Fountain

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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people – like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet – I just like music.

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess – she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

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The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

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