No ground gained was ever relinquished.
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B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
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B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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.
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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...
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B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
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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...
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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.
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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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B. B. KING It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
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B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
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B. B. KING You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
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B. B. KING I never use that word, retire.
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B. B. KING A lot of people believe what other people say.
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B. B. KING I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
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B. B. KING I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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B. B. KING I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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B. B. KING If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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B. B. KING There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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To mortals is a providence.
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She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
Lay...
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And from the hipp
MATTHEW GREEN The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just oursel...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather t...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The East bow'd low before the blast,
In patient, deep disdain.
She let the legions thunder pas...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I never strove to rule the roast,
She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.
MATTHEW PRIOR Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, se...
MATTHEW FOX At night astronomers agree.
MATTHEW PRIOR I must not say that she was true,
Yet let me say that she was fair;
And they, that lovely face...
MATTHEW ARNOLD