Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday. B. B. King More Quotes by B. B. King More Quotes From B. B. King The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King 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. B. B. King beast savages thinking And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die. B. B. King 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. B. B. King black music workout The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing. B. B. King hopefully three laughing God made Blues right after he made woman. B. B. King made You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll. B. B. King died good-times done A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day. B. B. King 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. B. B. King 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. B. B. King may children people A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me. B. B. King 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. B. B. King 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. B. B. King guitar lying thinking I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions. B. B. King guitar emotion wanted Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too. B. B. King nobody-loves-me mother Education is the one thing that no one can take from you. B. B. King one-thing May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day. B. B. King live-forever forever may Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there! B. B. King wanting-to-die want heaven Notes are expensive... spend them wisely B. B. King notes expensive I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once. B. B. King knows men thinking
