The best Quotes by B.B. King

The best Quotes by B.B. King

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

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

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

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When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

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We stole the Statue of Liberty! The small one, from Las Vegas. I won't even mention the Eiffel Tower - also Vegas.

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Phil, you let this dude [Dennis Rodman] go to vacation, we not gonna see him. You let him go to Vegas, we definitely not gonna see him.

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Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.

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No. Well, yes - experience.

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I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

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Man, I really like Vegas.

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Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

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I've spent more time in Las Vegas than any other city, almost including L.A. where I live.

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Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

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Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.

I love the American Southwest, for starters. You may call them Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah. I call them heaven.

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Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy.

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They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Nevada - and that's pretty much the same thing.

How long does it take to get from Louisiana to Alabama?
One Mississippi.

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One day, I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change - not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.

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They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Mississippi - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Having a solo career is a funny thing.

The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Ray Charles

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The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

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Learning Education

Never memorize what you can look up in books.

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

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