Me Quotes and Sayings

When I create a song, I immediately think about what I'm going to wear when I perform that song. I think about the music video treatment and about how I'm going to look on stage when I perform the record. The connection is so obvious that it's a single package. An outfit, to me, is almost a tool to express the music.

Almost • Connection • Look • Me • Music • Music Video Treatment • Obvious • Outfit • Package • Single • Song • Stage • Think • Tool

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.

Elwyn Brooks White

Able • Age • Image • Me • Mental • Myself • Never • Old • Old Age • Problem • Special Problem

The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

Art • Balance • Between • Business • Commercialism • Crazy • Fine • Game • Guns • Line • Me • Music • Pressures • Purist • Somebody • Tightrope

I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

Different Way • Guitar • Head • Keyboards • Keys • Look • Looking • Lot • Me • Real • Sound • Trying • You

I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

Dawn • Heart • Me • Say • Something • Think • World

Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.

Album • Artists • Boom • Exciting • Expect • Gears • Journey • Know • Me • Miles • Next • Once • One • Path • Prince • Style • You

When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

C. C. H. Pounder

Back • Boarding • Head • Kid • Me • Memory • Pickleball • Problems • Remember • School

I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

C. C. H. Pounder

Chosen Category • Down • Hollywood • Interesting • Me • Model • People • Spite • Success • Successful • Think • Work

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.

Born • Me • Nobody • People • Person • Segregated Society • Society • Treat • You

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

Books History • Head • History • Howto • Me • Nature • Nobody • Saying • Think • You

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.

Blues • Hometown • Indianola Mississippi • Live • Me • People • Songs • Start • Street Corners • Time • Time Square • Tunes • You

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

Anything • Blues Around • Doing • Felt • House • Me • Parents • Proud • Think • Today • Wrong

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

Blues • Blues Singer • Guitar • Man • Me • Myself • You

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.

Camino • Car • Crazy • Hills Near • Live • Me • Mercedes • Nature • Nice • Old • Pictures • Truck • Wildlife

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

Bleeding • Blood • Blues • Me • Same

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.

Better • Blues • Blues Singer • Bluesman • Guitar • Lot • Man • Many • Me • Myself • Taught • Things • Think • You

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.

Everything • Go • Go For It • Me • Songs • Sound • Suit • Try

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy… people who don't have no food… Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.

Big • Fans • Food • Funeral • Homeless • Me • Money • Needy People • People • Something • Time • Time Comes

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

Able • Anything • Eat • Hands • Help • Me • Proud • World

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

Could • Jivin • Me • Mother • Nobody • She • Too

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

Anger • Angry • Anybody • Friends • Like • Me • Rather

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.

Cardiologist • Doctor • Doctors • Feet • George Benson • Guitar • Guitar Players • Heart • Me • One • Plays • Terms • Think

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.'

Attention • Blues • Blues Singer • Country • Me • Much • Nobody • Ole • People • Trying

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

BB King • King • Look • Man • Me • Name • Old Man • You

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

Blues • Blues Singer • Entertainer • Going • Just Be • Me • Singer • Try

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess – she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

Beautiful • Good • Guitar • Half • Known • Lady • Me • Mother • Nine • Player • She • Something

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

Blind • Johnson • Listen • Lonnie • Me • Mother • Music • People • Records • Time

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.

Anything • Blues • Electric Guitar • Guitar • Him • Me • Never • Singlestring • TBone • Walker • Woman

I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

Believe • Big • Guy • Head • Loved • Me • People • Saying • Something • Stone • Think • Unless • Way

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.

Died • Live • Lot • Lucky • Me • Parents • People • Rooter • Think • Tooter • Trying • Younger

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 never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

Everything • Go For It • Know • Me • Never • Public • Songs • Sound • Suit • Try

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.

Age • Bit • Guitar • Kinda • Little • Me • Much • Neck • Once • Thumb • Time

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me… don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

Big • Big Fuss • Children • Everybody • Expense • Family • Funeral • Hope • Loved • Me • Older • Pressure • Rest • Something

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

Baptist • Choir • Church • Gospel • Guitar • Local • Me • Minister • Myself • One • Play • Positions • Taught • Three

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Alan Alexander Milne

Believe • Braver • Intelligence • Me • Remember • Smarter • Stronger • Think • You

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

Alan Alexander Milne

Forget • Me • Never Forget • Thought • You

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.

Arms • Attention • Businesslike • Calmly • Fact • Fashion • Government • Law • Me • Rules • Speak • Supplies

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia – I believe that is my greatest wealth.

Europe • Great • I Am • Leadership • Man • Me • Nation • People • Wealthiest Man • Wealthy • Whole • World

My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her – with the goal of saving him.

Child • Children • Families • Me • Mother • Parents

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

Citizens • Eternally • Fate • Government • Grateful • Head • Me

In almost any country, probably in Russia in particular, it's fashionable to criticise people in power. If you come out in support of someone like me, you're going to be accused of trying to ingratiate yourself.

Almost • Country • Fashionable • Me • Particular • People • Power • Russia • Someone • Support • Yourself

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

Anywhere • Construction • Country • Everything • Good • Me • Minimal • One • People • Quality • Time • World

I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Average • Bit • Blame • Grow • Identity • Kid • Life • Little • Me • Punkrock • Realize • Rock • Sellout • Seventeenyearold • Things

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

Age • Artist • Artistic • Contract • Early • Early Age • Me • Mother

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Anything • Anytime • Cancer • Emotional Level • Every • Highest • I Can • Kids • Little • Me • Sadder • See • Think • Time

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

Know • Me • Rock • Rock Star • Star • Success

I've always had a problem with the average macho man – they've always been a threat to me.

Always • Average • Average Macho • Been • Man • Me • Problem • Threat