Quotes by B. B. King

B. B. King

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

Guitar

Music

Old Friends

A lot of people believe what other people say.

Believe

People

A lot of times I say to myself, “I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes.” I’m not inventing anything that’s going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it. When someone do say something negative, most times I think about it, but it don’t bother me that much.

Cancer

People

Thinking

Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

Brother

Kings

Music

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

Long

People

Problem

Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn’t play like any of them, though.

Christian

Impact

Music

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

One Thing

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.

Pity

Unique

I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I’d shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can’t pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that’s how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.

Guitar

Hands

Play

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

Guitar

Men

Singers

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Appreciate

Aunt

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Black Person

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Cancer

Care

Children

Christian

Complaining

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Depressing

Dollars

Done

Dresses

Emotion

Entertainers

Expensive

Giving

Guitar

Guy

Hands

Hard Work

Heart

Hopefully

Humiliation

Hurt

Impact

Kids

Kings

Knows

Laughing

Law

Leaving

Littles

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Quotes by B. B. King

B. B. King

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn’t play like any of them, though.

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.

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

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