I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown. L'Wren Scott Blues • Listening • Lots • Motown • Muddy • Up • Wolf
The thing with me is, about that – about rock and all that – years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that. D'Angelo Blues • Connection • Cratedigging Listening • Everything • Funk • Kind • Me • Much • Music • Old • Old music • Pretty • Rock • Rock Music • Soul • Start • Thing • Thread • Years
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music. B. B King Blues • Kind • Music • Nobody • Old • Something • Years
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. People would come by on the street – you live in Time Square, you know how they do it – they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues. B. B King Blues • Hometown • Indianola Mississippi • Live • Me • People • Songs • Start • Street Corners • Time • Time Square • Tunes • You
I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues. B. B King Black • Blues • Brother • People • Poor • Red • Rich • White • Yellow
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things. B. B King Better • Blues • Blues Singer • Bluesman • Guitar • Lot • Man • Many • Me • Myself • Taught • Things • Think • You
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. B. B King Big • Blues • Brother • College • Guy • High • Higher • Jazz • Learning • Play • School
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. B. B King Bit • Blues • Child • Family • Little • Loved • People • Problem • Problem Child
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! B. B King Blues • Late • Lot • Night • People • Problem • Saturday • Stations
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. B. B King Always • Blues • Defend • Idea • Person • Tried
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. B. B King Anything • Blues • Electric Guitar • Guitar • Him • Me • Never • Singlestring • TBone • Walker • Woman
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. B. B King Back • Blues • City • Different Places • Good • Greats • Guys • Jam • Jazzblues • Kansas • Lot • Places • Things • Think • Whenever
I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going. B. B King Blues • Blues Singer • Entertainer • Going • Just Be • Me • Singer • Try
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.' B. B King Attention • Blues • Blues Singer • Country • Me • Much • Nobody • Ole • People • Trying
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer. B. B King Blues • Blues Singer • Rather • Singer • Twice • Women
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. B. B King Anyone • Blues • Myself • Never • People • Play • Singers • Work
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. B. B King Black • Black Twice • Blues • Counts • Missed • Music • Never • Said • Vaughan
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. B. B King Anymore • Blue • Blues • Play • Then • Tonic • Whatever • You
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die. B. B King Blues • Die • People • Problems • World
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. B. B King Blues • Job • Kind • Living • Love • Road
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. B. B King Blues • Blues Singer • Guitar • Man • Me • Myself • You
L'Wren Scott
D'Angelo
B. B King
