If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another. B. B. King More Quotes by B. B. King More Quotes From B. B. King A lot of people believe what other people say. B. B. King believe people When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself! B. B. King leaving three sleep If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money. B. B. King dresses want people The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source. B. B. King source music mother Hard times don't necessarily mean being poor all the time. I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get. B. B. King hard-times hurt mean I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. B. B. King plagiarism stealing thinking The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't. B. B. King cds long people Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival. B. B. King being-sad sadness hands He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well, he was a person that made waves. When you heard Jimi Hendrix you knew it was Jimi Hendrix, he introduced himself in his instrument... You know, many radio stations play records and a lot of the times they don't call out the names who you just listened to, but when they play Jimi Hendrix, you don't have to tell me, [you know] it's Jimi Hendrix. B. B. King music names play No one can take it away from you. B. B. King education teacher knowledge I never use that word, retire. B. B. King retiring use Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though. B. B. King impact music christian Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues B. B. King music brother kings We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. B. B. King being-yourself guitar music I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young. B. B. King kicks performing young I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords. B. B. King chords horrible I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little juke joints not far from where I lived, and I used to go there. They wouldn't let me play inside, but I could sit outside on the weekends, when it wasn't raining or something. B. B. King weekend rain night Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite. B. B. King jazz music world I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch. B. B. King lunch pay way When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are. B. B. King loved-ones where-you-are worry
