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B. B King Quotes

B. B King

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.

Ground Someplace Know Loved Money Much Where Worry You

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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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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

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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.

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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

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

B. B King

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

B. B King

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

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.

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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

B. B King

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