B. B King Quotes

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.

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 don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

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

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.

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've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.

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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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.

To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.

Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.

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