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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are. — B.B. King

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus. — Timothy B. Tyson

I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young. — B.B. King

I've always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she's pretty. — B.B. King

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us — B.B. King

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you. — B.B. King

A lot of people believe what other people say. — B.B. King

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

I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back. — B.B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source. — B.B. King

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

When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression. — Robby Krieger

God made Blues right after he made woman. — B.B. King

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like. — B.B. King

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me. — 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. — B.B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going. — B.B. King

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

A king is but a foolish labourer
Who wastes his blood to be another's dream.
-from Fergus and the Druid — W.B.Yeats

The beautiful thing about education is that no one can take it away from you. — B.B. King

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too. — B.B. King

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money. — B.B. King

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King. — Maurice Gibb

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. — B.B. King

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. — B.B. King

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer. — B.B. King

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

Being a blues singer is like being black two times. — B.B. King

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! — B.B. King

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

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once. — B.B. King

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

B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre. — Chris Matthews

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway. — B.B. King

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain. — B.B. King

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me. — B.B. King

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

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

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Right isn't always legal. — J.S.B. Morse

Playing guitar is like telling the truth. — B.B. King

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier. — B.B. King

Breath is the king of mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues. — B.B. King

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it. — B.B. King

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. — Robin Trower

B. B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach. — Ilana Mercer

I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes. — Philip Kerr

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues — B.B. 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. — B.B. King

Be loyal to the royal that is in you, for you are the child of a King. — Harold B. Lee

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles. — Daryl Hall

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. — B.B. King

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there! — B.B. King

I am Damian, the king of Antion, and no one will ever take someone I love from me again and live. — Sara B. Larson

When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time. — B.B. King

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. — B.B. King

Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find. — B.K.S. Iyengar

King Offa's dyke, — John B. Hattendorf

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all. — B.B. King

And before you make any judgments, that time you were trying out your king-size with the sales assistant doesn't count as getting a man into bed. — Jonathan Dunne

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. — B.B. King

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends. — B.B. King

I never use that word, retire. — B.B. King

I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point. — Lance Gross

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing. — B.B. King

It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself. — B.B. King

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. — B.B. King

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords. — B.B. King

I don't like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch. — B.B. King

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions. — B.B. King

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. — B.B. King

Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday. — B.B. King

The mind is the king of the senses, and the breath is the king of the mind — B.K.S. Iyengar

No one can take it away from you. — B.B. King

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. — B.B. King

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life. — B.B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine. — B.B. King

Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite. — B.B. King

Red for the blood of Christ, green for his everlasting love, blue for heaven above, and old for the King of Kings. — Nancy B. Brewer

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day. — B.B. King

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

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll. — B.B. King

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence. — B.B. King

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more. — B.B. King

Notes are expensive ... spend them wisely — B.B. King

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

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person. — B.B. King

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. — B.B. King

A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day. — B.B. King

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another. — B.B. King

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting. — Stephen King