Top 85 Quotes by B. B. King

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

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.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.