B. B. King Quotes

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King

Music, Black, Said

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. King

Learning, Beautiful, Away

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, May, Him

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
B. B. King

Family, Trying, Stand

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, Play

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. King

Care, Remember, Put

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. King

Old, Tell, Name

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. King

Die, Everybody, Heaven

A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. King

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

Mind, Night, Song

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. King

Anybody, Borrow, Steals

I never use that word, retire.
B. B. King

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

Heart, Guitar, Doctor

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

Money, Put, Worry

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. King

Guitar, Call, Blues

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. King

Angry, Friends, Rather

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. King

Good, Horrible, Chords

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. King

Women, Rather, Married

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. King

Find, Another, Songs

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
B. B. King

Good, Money, Down

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
B. B. King

Work, Trying, Play

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. King

Mother, She, Nobody

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, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
B. B. King

Good, Health, Today

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. King

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. King

Yourself, Care, Play

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: September 16, 1925

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