Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.


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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
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I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
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My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
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I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
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The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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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 com...
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I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
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Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
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I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
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As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
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Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
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It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
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I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
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I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
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What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
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I never use that word, retire.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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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 com...
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I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
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A lot of people believe what other people say.
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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 ...
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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
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If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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