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

My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

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

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

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.

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here – like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things – but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

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

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We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

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Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

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