B. B King Quotes

Touring a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

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.

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

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

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 beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

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

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

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.

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I write for myself – but it is nice when other people like it, too!

All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish.

I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.

Why does the world dislike Russia? I do not think that we are unloved or considered to be ignorant.

I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

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