Best B B King Sayings
- The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts,… Buy
- The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source. American
- You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll. Died
- I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. All
- When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people… Age
- I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played… Blues
- The blues was bleeding the same blood as me. Bleeding
- Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for… Go
- I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier. Amplifier
- I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. Corners
- I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I… Disk
- As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke. Band