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.

Quote by B B King

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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can...

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can...

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself...

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself...

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray...

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray...

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we...

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we...

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after...

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after...

Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth....

Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth....

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz...

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz...

Jazz is the music of the body

Jazz is the music of the body

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their...

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their...

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of...

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of...

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has...

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has...