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B. B King Quotes

B. B King

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

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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 used to play – when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.

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

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.

B. B King

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

B. B King

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

B. B King

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

B. B King

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!

B. B King

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

B. B King

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.

B. B King

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