I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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. Wh...
B. B. KING I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.
MEL B When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
MEL B If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be n...
B. TRAVEN Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight ...
B. WILBERFORCE There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.
B. QUILLIAM When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
B. CYBRILL I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I...
KATY B I love clubbing - the abandon of it, the release of dancing, and being with my friends and the peopl...
KATY B I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec...
RUTH B I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ...
RUTH B No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcom...
B. DODGE I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be ...
B. TRAVEN Think positively, the way you think will describe you.
ABHIYANDA B. Be afraid, when you feel always fearless
ABHIYANDA B. My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B Don't try hard to explain, but try hard to prove it.
ABHIYANDA B. We lived in an age where fake is a must.
ABHIYANDA B. yepp it's ok, i know you dont care at all, but i still have to make you smile, cause i love seeing y...
ABHIYANDA B. I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'...
MEL B When Duncan did arrive a half hour later, I hugged him and didn't let go. He seemed a little embarra...
B. ALSTON In fact, life of the virtual world are the ones who wearing mask.
ABHIYANDA B. Don't judge me unfriendly, I'm not arrogant, I'm not shy i just like quietness, cause i can nurture ...
ABHIYANDA B. You're a user that will never access the password to my heart
NATALIA B. Am I still a hero if the only person I save is
myself?
Am I still a villain if the only pe...
B. DAMANI He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar ...
B. SMITH We're all like rock, scissors and paper. unbeaten also can be defeated easily.
ABHIYANDA B. at least, make one proof of yourself, someday will be needed for your existence.
ABHIYANDA B. you can change your mood everyday but not with your feelings
ABHIYANDA B. If we never make it, then don't ever to fake it... sometimes accepting a failure will make you be an...
ABHIYANDA B. I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.
RUTH B I thought it was a prank. There is no way six different major labels trying to reach out to me. But ...
RUTH B I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around,...
KATY B Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings...
RUTH B Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sun...
B. DEVINE My brother and I do trivia quizzes all the time.
RUTH B This morning after yoga, I laid in the grass and watched the white clouds go by as the Earth turned ...
ERIKA B. What I wanted to make sure of is that I wasn't just tagged as a Viner.
RUTH B How lonely it is!
To be drowning,
in a place
where everyone can swim.
B. DAMANI There's a depth in you that has yet been discovered.
Abyssal and buried
it terrifies your ...
B. YOUNGZ I’d likte to welcome you to the land of free, where healthy, wealthy, happy people contribute to t...
B. BARMANBEK In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the ...
B. BARMANBEK She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.
B. BARMANBEK May you have the courage to choose love over hate.
LETA B. I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; sh...
KATY B The Savior was selfless. He viewed himself and his own needs as secondary, and he ministered to othe...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the min...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN True love lasts forever.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to ...
B. R. AMBEDKAR Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad an...
JOHN B. LARSON The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great an...
T. B. JOSHUA We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would cho...
HENRY B. EYRING Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible econo...
LESTER B. PEARSON It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. WHITE The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. YEHOSHUA Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
T. B. JOSHUA After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if...
T. B. JOSHUA When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the...
T. B. JOSHUA As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as ...
T. B. JOSHUA There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
T. B. JOSHUA I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.
T. B. JOSHUA Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
T. B. JOSHUA Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human lab...
T. B. JOSHUA I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His ...
T. B. JOSHUA Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which con...
T. B. JOSHUA That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about....
T. B. JOSHUA When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise...
T. B. JOSHUA The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave th...
T. B. JOSHUA Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or...
T. B. JOSHUA What makes you a good citizen makes you a good Christian... Obey the law of your land by not crossin...
T. B. JOSHUA The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roo...
T. B. JOSHUA What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
T. B. JOSHUA When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity w...
T. B. JOSHUA There's nothing spectacular about Prophet T.B Joshua. He is just like every other human being. B...
T. B. JOSHUA Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
T. B. JOSHUA Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
T. B. JOSHUA Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are su...
T. B. JOSHUA The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the furt...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a r...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, the...
IDA B. WELLS The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
IDA B. WELLS There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
IDA B. WELLS The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
IDA B. WELLS The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is ...
HAROLD B. LEE The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments o...
HAROLD B. LEE My humble prayer is that all men everywhere may understand more fully the significance of the atonem...
HAROLD B. LEE There's no doubt that there's a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, bu...
J. B. PRITZKER The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
J. B. PRITZKER Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nat...
J. B. PRITZKER I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
J. B. PRITZKER When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
J. B. PRITZKER I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
J. B. PRITZKER It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise......
J. B. PRITZKER I am a lifelong Democrat.
J. B. PRITZKER