B. B King Quotes

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.

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.

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.

I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop – I can't think of any music I don't like.

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

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

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I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

Luxury is a state of mind.

We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.

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