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B. B King Quotes

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

Anymore Blue Blues Play Then Tonic Whatever You

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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

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.

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

I never use that word, retire.

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

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.

Do I love the road? Honestly? No – but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

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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If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.

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