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B. B King Quotes

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

Cotton Force Growing Nature Poetry

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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.

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.

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

Touring a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!

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

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

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

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I'm so happy because today I found my friends – they're in my head.

I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.

W. Averell Harriman

Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.

O'Shea Jackson Jr

We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.

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