There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want… — 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
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 just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I think Ive done the best I could have done. But I keep wanting to play better, go further. There are so… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done — 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
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
