When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going. — B. B. King Copy Share Image
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before:… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues,'… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage,… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever,… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth.… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
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… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
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… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
There was a lot of other young players around at that time when I was coming, but there was older people like Blind Lemon,… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
