B. B. King Quotes

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day.

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  Something New

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• And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

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  Long, People, Problem

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• Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

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  Thinking, Savages, Beast

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• The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing.

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  Laughing, Three, Hopefully

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• God made Blues right after he made woman.

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  Made

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• Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

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  Guitar, Telling The Truth, Playing Guitar

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• We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.

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  Animal, Garden, Needs

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

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  Done, Good Times, Died

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

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  Music, Mother, Source

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

  B. B. King

  Missing, Knows

  "Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 10, 2004.

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

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  Heaven, Want, Wanting To Die

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Music, Workout, Black

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• A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

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  Music, Guitar, Old Friends

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• Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

  B. B. King

  One Thing

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• Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

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  Lying, Thinking, Guitar

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• The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

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  Children, People, May

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• Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

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  Notes, Expensive

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• 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.

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  Sadness, Want, Kind

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

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  Men, Thinking, Knows

  "B.B. King: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. 2005.

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• Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.

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  Mother, Nobody Loves Me

  "Nobody Loves Me But My Mother" (song) (1970)

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• I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

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  Guitar, Emotion, Wanted

  "Blues All Around Me". Book by B. B. King, David Ritz, www.indiewire.com. 1996.

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• A lot of people believe what other people say.

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  Believe, People

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• 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.

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  Guitar, Talking, Two

  "BB King at 87: the last of the great bluesmen" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Growing Up, Men, Trying

  "B.B. King: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. 2005.

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