B. B. King Quotes

B. B. King
American Musician
Born: Sep 16, 1925
Died: May 14, 2015
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I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues. B. B. King
People Black Rich White Our Brother See Brown Red Yellow Get Trying Blues Poor Keeper
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. B. B. King
You Whatever Could Blue Blues Anymore Then Play Tonic
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die. B. B. King
People World Problems Long Never Over Die Blues
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. B. B. King
Learning School College Big Jazz Starts High Brother High School Guy Higher He Like Big Brother Going Blues Play Playing
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there! B. B. King
Everybody No-One Go Get Die Heaven Wants
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions. B. B. King
Emotions Guitar Human Wanted Human Emotions Connect
Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain. B. B. King
Water Better Black White Than Taste Any Fountain
Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too. B. B. King
Me Mother Too Could Nobody She Loves
I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music. B. B. King
Music God Women Gift Care Greatest Gift Think Bad About Like Talking Because Greatest Women Are dont Care Just Planet
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll. B. B. King
Great Song Thought King Beginning Guess Would Would-Be Recorded Hot Great Song She Because Rock Rock-N-Roll Years Years Ago Version Roll Dynamite Company
I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. B. B. King
Think Borrow Steals Anybody Anything Us
A lot of people believe what other people say. B. B. King
People Believe Other Say People Say Lot
I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will. B. B. King
You Will Out Clapton Given More Talent Like Equal Understand George Eric Eric Clapton Wonder Oh Just Being Where Want Them Many Kenny
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me. B. B. King
Me You People Treat Long Society Lasted Other Born Only Segregated Had Nobody Because Mistreated Were Left Than Person Mean Dislike Them Disliked Who Raised
I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work. B. B. King
Work Myself People Few Other Tried Could Never Wished Like Singers Hearing Than Few People Blues Wanted Anyone Them Might Play
I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends. B. B. King
Angry Me Anger Rather Like Friends Anybody
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time. B. B. King
Time You People Better Nervous First Before Think Meeting About More Onstage Never Developed Head Like Concern Concerned Concert First Time Still Audition Than Get Any Going Just In-Laws Your Each Each Time Played Last Last Time
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. B. B. King
Nature Poetry Cotton Force Growing
I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife. B. B. King
Nature Me Crazy Old Car Nice Live Wildlife Out About Mercedes Take Vegas Truck Taking Pictures Like Hills Go Camera Up Get Heaven Being Where Then Near
I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells. B. B. King
Song Mind Every Favorite Willie Willie Nelson Nelson Tells Would Could He Written Like Sing Always Version Story If I Could Every Night Night
When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are. B. B. King
You Money Worry Someplace Put Know Just Where Loved Loved Ones Much Your Ground
I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember. B. B. King
Remember Care Humiliation More Put Up Than
Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do. B. B. King
Love Job Living Honestly Earn Kind Some Road Like Also How Fever Blues
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it. B. B. King
Family You People Problem Other Bit Would See Take Had Like Know Him How Child May Just Anybody Blues Loved Ashamed Little Little Bit
I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all. B. B. King
Me You Heart Doctor Guitar Doctors Believe Think Guitar Players Would Would-Be He Over Feet Terms George Leg Them Then Your Works Players Plays
My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling. B. B. King
Truth God Me Eyes Wife Face Mouth Fiber Every Else Eyebrows Torture Martha Facial Open Head Like Look Ecstasy Call Knows Because Squeeze Being Lemon Used Show Lucille Play Raise
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