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B. B King Quotes

B. B King

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

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I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me… don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

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

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

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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

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If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

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

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If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

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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.

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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

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