B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.
B. B. King
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.
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Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.
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I always believed in my characters. I lived them.
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Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.
B. B. King
