If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar. B. B. King askbluebone Change image and share on social
I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music. B. B. King badcaregift Change image and share on social
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player. B. B. King beautifuldiegood share on social
I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family. B. B. King childcottondrive Change image and share on social
I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues. B. B. King blackbluebrother Change image and share on social
I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends. B. B. King angryfriend Change image and share on social
I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands. B. B. King carefuleathand share on social
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. B. B. King asleephardnight Change image and share on social
Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain. B. B. King blackfountaintaste Change image and share on social
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music. B. B. King blueguesskind Change image and share on social
