B. B King Quotes B. B King Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. Cotton Force Growing Nature Poetry
When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are. B. B King
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. B. B King
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. B. B King
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. B. B King
The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire! B. B King
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die. B. B King
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. B. B King
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. B. B 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. B. B King
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music. B. B King
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. B. B King
I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs. D'Angelo
I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around. Zac Brown
My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached. K'naan
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