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B. B King Quotes

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

Anyone Be Yourself Care Doing Idols You Yourself

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

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

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.

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. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

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.

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

I never use that word, retire.

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

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.

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Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.

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