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B. B King Quotes

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

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I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

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.

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

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

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.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

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

I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.

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I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it's our city now, too.

I think that we get so distracted with our smartphones… It takes your body and your brain time to switch between tasks. If we can focus on what we're doing, we'll be more productive at that task.

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It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

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