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

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

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.

From B. B. King

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.

From B. B. King

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

From B. B. King

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

From B. B. King

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

From B. B. King

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.

From B. B. King

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

From B. B. King

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

From B. B. King

B. B. King

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