Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.


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Forget yourself and go to work.
BRYANT S. HINCKLEY
The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY
In the book of Alma is a story that has fascinated e since I first read it. it is about a very color...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY
People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING
I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING
I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING
Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING
I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING
Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING
If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING
Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING
I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING
If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING
I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING
I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING
I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING
I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING
I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING
If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING
When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING
My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING
I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING
The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING
I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING
My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING
Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING
Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING