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Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.


Joseph B. Wirthlin

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B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
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 I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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. Wh...
B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING 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...
B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
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 I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
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