Home
Topics
Authors
Profession
Zodiac Signs

Home
Topics
Authors
Profession
Zodiac Signs

B. B King Quotes

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

Different Different Ways Like Love Met Never Woman

More Related 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.

Do I love the road? Honestly? No – but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

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.

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

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

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

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

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton… oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

Quotes of the Hour

I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.

Qorianka Kilcher

I spend a little time every day to play sports.

One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line – I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.

If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms.

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

Popular Topics

Always Anything Believe Best Blues Day Doing Everything Feel First Good I Am Know Life Like Look Lot Love Me More Music Myself Never One Own People Play Russia Something Song Songs Things Think Time Try Trying Up Us Want Way Will Work World Years You

Copyright © 2026 Epigrammatic Ltd. All rights reserved.

Home
Topics
Authors
Profession
Zodiac Signs

Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Copyright
Contact Us