B. B King Quotes

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me… don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

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

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

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop – I can't think of any music I don't like.

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

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

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

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.

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.

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

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