Quotes by B. B. King

"I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends."

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"Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning."

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

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"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."

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"Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton."

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