B.B. King Quotes
Top 71 wise famous quotes and sayings by B.B. King
B.B. King Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I've always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she's pretty.
I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.
The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
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.
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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.
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.
There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.