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. KINGEducation is the one thing that no one can take from you.
More B. B. King Quotes
-
-
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.
B. B. KING -
Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
B. B. KING -
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
B. B. KING -
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
B. B. KING -
Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
B. B. KING -
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
B. B. KING -
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING -
Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
B. B. KING -
It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
B. B. KING -
The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
B. B. KING -
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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 gotta stand in the doorway.
B. B. KING -
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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 -
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING