B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes

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.

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Light
  • Day

• Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Free
  • Wish
  • Crazy

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• I don't study; I create.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Study
  • Create

• I'm easily entertained.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Easily
  • Entertained

• A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Up
  • Day
  • Dinner

• The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Enemy
  • Hands
  • Direction

• I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Democratic
  • Normally

• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Social

• I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Done
  • Enjoy

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Peace

• I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Train
  • Diamond

• Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Good
  • You
  • Advice

• I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Sweet
  • Try
  • Fat

• I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Music

• The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs
  • Good
  • May
  • Truth

• I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Country
  • Process
  • Strive

• I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.

  

  Jeffrey Skoll
  • World
  • House

• 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
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  • Worry