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
B. B. King quotes about
great job kevin team
Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.
bet forgiven gene
Gene bet on Bobby, but I've forgiven him since.
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.
something-new
A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day.
music guitar old-friends
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
laughing three hopefully
The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing.
being-yourself night law
I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
night play people
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
player men thinking
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.
sleep leaving way
When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!
music being-yourself idols
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
one-thing
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
music nice guy
I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that..." We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy...
two voice guitar
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.