B. B King Quotes

Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.

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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 it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

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

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here – like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things – but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

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.

'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.

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

My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

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Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.

I never use that word, retire.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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