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

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

B. B. King

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• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Great
  • Funny

• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

  

  K. Flay
  • Something
  • Rich
  • Hip Hop

• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Done
  • Successful

• I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Important
  • Home
  • Worry

• I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Great
  • Done
  • Movies

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Airplane

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Game
  • Day

• In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Word
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• I never really did any disco dancing.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Never
  • Dancing
  • Disco

• Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Free Press

• I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Different
  • Character
  • Girl

• I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • You
  • Grateful

• Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before. Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe; forward into battle see his banners go!

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • War
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Kind

• I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Philosophy

• There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music