#you

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive. ↗

— Don King

#got #greatest #guy #heart #survive

When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play. ↗

— Alveda King

#baby #born #come #into #issues

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it. ↗

— B. B. King

#ashamed #bit #blues #child #family

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway. ↗

— B. B. King

#doorway #family #get #gotta #growing

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all. ↗

— B. B. King

#doctor #doctors #feet #george #guitar

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are. ↗

— B. B. King

#just #know #loved #loved ones #money

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. ↗

— B. B. King

#call #guitar #heard #i #man

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King. ↗

— B. B. King

#i #king #look #man #me

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