If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another. — 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… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
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
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him.… — 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… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Hard times don't necessarily mean being poor all the time. I've known people that was a part of a family and always… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually… — 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'… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music. — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence. — 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
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit… — 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
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
![“Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.” quote by B. B. King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/928/b-b-king-4531_asks_playing-the-guitar-is-like-telling-the-t_186528.jpg)
