#like

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money. ↗

— B. B. King

#blues #borrow #down #dress #going

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. ↗

— B. B. King

#asleep #else #everybody #everybody else #had

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. ↗

— B. B. King

#big brother #blues #brother #college #going

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

— B. B. King

#anyone #be yourself #care #doing #idols

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes. ↗

— Ben E. King

#career #cheating #feel #i #i feel

Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me. ↗

— Venus Williams

#actually #becomes #clarity #clearer #feel

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#best #each #events #i #i always

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#allowed #form #life #likely #short

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#endured #liked #offensive #patient #people

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#because #god #human #i #like