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B. B King Quotes

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

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

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet – I just like music.

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

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.

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.'

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess – she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

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

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

Do I love the road? Honestly? No – but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

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I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

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