Top 85 Quotes by B. B. King

About B. B. King

These are some quotes by American author B. B. King Musician, who lived between September 16, 1925 and May 14, 2015.

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

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

B. B. King

I never use that word, retire.

I never use that word, retire.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

B. B. King

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

B. B. King

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.

B. B. King

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