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B. B King Quotes

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

BB King King Look Man Me Name Old Man You

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

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I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop – I can't think of any music I don't like.

I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

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

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

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