B. B. King Quotes - Page 3

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• Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

  B. B. King

  Music, Brother, Kings

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Education, Teacher, Knowledge

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• He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well, he was a person that made waves. When you heard Jimi Hendrix you knew it was Jimi Hendrix, he introduced himself in his instrument... You know, many radio stations play records and a lot of the times they don't call out the names who you just listened to, but when they play Jimi Hendrix, you don't have to tell me, [you know] it's Jimi Hendrix.

  B. B. King

  Music, Play, Names

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

  B. B. King

  People, Problem, Natural

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• I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.

  B. B. King

  People, Complaining, Records

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

  B. B. King

  Hard Work, Night, Play

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• I can't think of anyone I've mistreated. I've always thought that I am my brother's keeper. And I believe there's a 'great spirit' that takes care of all of us.

  B. B. King

  Brother, Believe, Thinking

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

  B. B. King

  Young, Performing, Kicks

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

  B. B. King

  Angry

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

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• 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

  Music, Rocks, Play

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• I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that..." We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy.

  B. B. King

  Music, Nice, Guy

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• It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

  B. B. King

  Years, People, Realizing

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• Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

  B. B. King

  Black, Persons, Black Person

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• 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

  Kids, Thinking, Play

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• I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little juke joints not far from where I lived, and I used to go there. They wouldn't let me play inside, but I could sit outside on the weekends, when it wasn't raining or something.

  B. B. King

  Rain, Weekend, Night

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Lunch, Pay, Way

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• 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

  People, Dresses, Want

  "I've earned the right to sit down" by Julian Piper, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2001.

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• I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

  B. B. King

  Care, Remember, Humiliation

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

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• There was a lot of other young players around at that time when I was coming, but there was older people like Blind Lemon, which was one of my favorites. I don't know, just seemed like everybody I heard could play better than me.

  B. B. King

  Player, People, Blind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.

  B. B. King

  Beautiful, Country, Usa

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

  B. B. King

  Music, World, Jazz

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• The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.

  B. B. King

  Names, People, Appreciate

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• My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. When the show started, the spotlight was sharp on this one man (Andres Segovia) and he had sombrero on and his guitar propped up like this and, oh man ... he was a master ! - I really heard it. That one guitar sounded like a whole orchestra to me.

  B. B. King

  Music, Nice, Men

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

  B. B. King

  Song, People, Way

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• The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.

  B. B. King

  Cds, Long, People

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