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B. B King Quotes

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

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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.

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was – and loved it all.

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

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

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.

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

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.

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