B. B King Quotes

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton… oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

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.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

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

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've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

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

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

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

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

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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

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