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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.

Done Many Many Sounds Sounds Still Things Want

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

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.

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess – she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

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.

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Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.

More than 90% of cancers are curable at stage one – look for them, look for them, look for them.

I think it just takes one little snowflake to start a snowball to go down the hill. My contribution and, say, Kendrick Lamar's and some chosen others' start the snowball. That's all I can hope for. I don't know if I'm comfortable being quote-unquote a leader.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

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