Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
B. B. King
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
B. B. King
Age: 89 †
Born: 1925
Born: September 16
Died: 2015
Died: May 14
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Berclair
Mississippi
Riley B. King
B.B. King
BB King
Riley Ben King
Ground
Ones
Loved
Worry
Money
Much
Someplace
More quotes by B. B. King
Hard times don't necessarily mean being poor all the time. I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
B. B. King
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. King
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. King
Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues,' they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I'm trying to satisfy.
B. B. King
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
B. B. King
Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. King
I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
B. B. King
When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.
B. B. King
Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here
B. B. King
No one can take it away from you.
B. B. King
Notes are expensive... spend them wisely
B. B. King
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. King
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.
B. B. King
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.
B. B. King
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
B. B. King
I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
B. B. King
Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues
B. B. King
It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
B. B. King
Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.
B. B. King
We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
B. B. King