B. B. King
B. B. King
Riley B. King, known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth16 September 1925
CountryUnited States of America
music guitar old-friends
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
people long problem
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
music workout black
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.
made
God made Blues right after he made woman.
love inspirational life
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
bet forgiven gene
Gene bet on Bobby, but I've forgiven him since.
destiny great knew somehow time
I . . . like being successful. I somehow always knew that I would succeed. I had a great sense of destiny from the time I was very young.
county great time
It's a great time for Rowan County with what's going on in Kannapolis ... the biotech project.
blood bleeding
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
hurt love-life people
I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That hurts, and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get. I've known people that would have problems with their love life. This is kind of how blues began - out of feeling misused, mistreated. Feeling like they had nobody to turn to. Blues don't necessarily have to be sung by a person that came from Mississippi as I did, because there are people having problems all over the world.
mother aunt people
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.
mother nobody-loves-me
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
song kids boys
I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness.
song night always-on-my-mind
I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.