Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer
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
Would
Traveling
Blues
Singer
Twice
Singers
Married
Rather
Women
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
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
B. B. King
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. King
It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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
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.
B. B. King
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. King
I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. King
I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little juke joints not far from where I lived, and I used to go there. They wouldn't let me play inside, but I could sit outside on the weekends, when it wasn't raining or something.
B. B. King
I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.
B. B. King
When I sing, I play in my mind the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. King
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
B. B. King
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. King
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
B. B. King
I've always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she's pretty.
B. B. King
Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
B. B. King
I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. King
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
B. B. King
