B. B. King Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.”

“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.”

“A lot of people believe what other people say.”

“Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.”

“I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.”

“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.”

“When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.”

“As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.”

“I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.”

“I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.”