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B. B King Quotes

B. B King

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

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My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.

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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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I never use that word, retire.

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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

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

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

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

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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 call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

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