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. KINGThe 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. KINGThere are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
B. B. KINGA lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KINGAnd as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
B. B. KINGI do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
B. B. KINGI don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KINGYou only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
B. B. KINGI 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.
B. B. KINGWe all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
B. B. KINGThere’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. KINGI can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
B. B. KINGI’d rather be B.B. King. That’s the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other … I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
B. B. KINGA day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
B. B. KINGThe blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KINGI look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
B. B. KINGAlbert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
B. B. KING