Best B.B. King Quotes
The Top Ten
1 We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
2 She (His mother) wanted me to be known, but as something
else. Not a guitar player.
3 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 that kind of music.
4 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.
5 People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
6 I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
7 Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
8 The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
9 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 my age, 18, up, I was one
they called.
10 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.
The Contenders
11 (To David Gilmour) "Hey boy, you sure you weren't born in Mississippi?"
12 (About Joe Bonamassa) "He's the kind that will be a legend before he's 25"
BAdd New Item