B. 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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 16, 1925 - May 14, 2015

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The truth is that the driver in policy is not the relationship between the United States and Cuba, but the relationship between Cubans, and that is far stronger than 50 years of intragovernment hostility.

Joe Garcia

RelationshipTruthTruth IsStronger

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

Jerry Saltz

ArtOpinionWorldFastGoThings

I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.

Jenna Ushkowitz

EquityFiveSixNineJoined

I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels.

Andy Biersack

FutureAlwaysBigBig FanBeenFan

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Maya Angelou

LoveTimeDatingLove IsHappenAny

I moved to Harvard in 1998, and in 2000 the first kidney exchange in the United States was done at a hospital nearby. I started to think, 'Gee, there might be a way where I could help organize it, make it easier for people to find kidneys.'

Alvin E. Roth

PeopleThinkHelpFindDoneWay

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

Rock Hudson

I AmNameNowRockOvercomeNever

I've always thought like I'm really a 3-feet-high comic trapped in a leading man's body... but then I played Nicholas Nickleby, and suddenly I was heroic.

Roger Rees

ManThoughtBodyTrappedAlways

The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.

Robin DiAngelo

WorkCulturePeopleGoalLiving

I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet.

Cornel Wilde

BeautifulHealthI AmEnvironmentAm

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

William J. Clinton

WorldYouPowerfulForceMost

I don't really watch too many movies, but I try to watch inspirational pieces about other musicians. Musical documentaries truly inspire me.

Syd

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