B. B King Quotes

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.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life… I haven't been the best father… Many times… my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.

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.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

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.

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

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.

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

'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.

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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.

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.

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!

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