It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
B. B. KINGKenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
More B. B. King Quotes
-
-
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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 do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
B. B. KING -
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
B. B. KING -
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING -
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
B. B. KING -
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
B. B. KING -
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
B. B. KING -
I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING -
Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
B. B. KING -
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.
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 -
The blues are three L’s – living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
B. B. KING -
I’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. KING -
I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING