B. B. King Quotes

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

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.

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing.

God made Blues right after he made woman.

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

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.

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

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.

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

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.

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here