Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.

B. B. King

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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away fro... by B. B. King

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

inspirational love life

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

beast savages thinking

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die. by B. B. King

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

problem long people

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

black music workout

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing... by B. B. King

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing.

hopefully three laughing

God made Blues right after he made woman. by B. B. King

God made Blues right after he made woman.

made

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the... by B. B. King

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

died good-times done

A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day. by B. B. King

A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day.

something-new

We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.

garden animal needs

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.

may children people

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me. by B. B. King

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

guitar music old-friends

I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.

being-yourself law night

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

guitar lying thinking

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions. by B. B. King

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

guitar emotion wanted

Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too. by B. B. King

Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.

nobody-loves-me mother

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you. by B. B. King

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

one-thing

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day. by B. B. King

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.

live-forever forever may

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get t... by B. B. King

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

wanting-to-die want heaven

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely by B. B. King

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

notes expensive

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once. by B. B. King

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

knows men thinking