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B. B King Quotes

A lot of people believe what other people say.

Believe Lot Other People People Believe People Say Say

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I never use that word, retire.

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.

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.

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

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.

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.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

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.

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.

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All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.

I was a music fan first way before I started creating it, so I still get giddy when I get to be around people that I respect so much.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

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One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.

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