Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
B. B. KINGGod made Blues right after he made woman.
More B. B. King Quotes
-
-
The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
B. B. KING -
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
B. B. KING -
Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let’s get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
B. B. KING -
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 -
Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
B. B. KING -
I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
B. B. KING -
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
B. B. KING -
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
B. B. KING -
The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
B. B. KING -
I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
B. B. KING -
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
B. B. KING -
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.
B. B. KING -
I can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.
B. B. KING -
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.
B. B. KING






