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B. B King Quotes

B. B King

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 never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

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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.

B. B King

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

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

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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'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

B. B King

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

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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.

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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.

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

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When I don't look cool enough or when I cannot make good music anymore, I will retire.
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