'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll. B. B. King More Quotes by B. B. King More Quotes From B. B. King 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 I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going. B. B. King entertainers singers trying When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille. B. B. King singing mind play 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. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will. B. B. King hard-work play night Playing guitar is like telling the truth. B. B. King playing-guitar guitar telling-the-truth I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. B. B. King singers guitar men There was a lot of other young players around at that time when I was coming, but there was older people like Blind Lemon, which was one of my favorites. I don't know, just seemed like everybody I heard could play better than me. B. B. King blind player people When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time. B. B. King play kids thinking Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA. B. B. King usa beautiful country I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day. B. B. King records complaining people You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life. B. B. King missing knows I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt, who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and a few others. B. B. King aunt mother people I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember. B. B. King humiliation care remember The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it. B. B. King appreciate names people Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues,' they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I'm trying to satisfy. B. B. King worry people thinking I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it. B. B. King guy kings play I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That hurts, and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get. I've known people that would have problems with their love life. This is kind of how blues began - out of feeling misused, mistreated. Feeling like they had nobody to turn to. Blues don't necessarily have to be sung by a person that came from Mississippi as I did, because there are people having problems all over the world. B. B. King love-life hurt people A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it. When someone do say something negative, most times I think about it, but it don't bother me that much. B. B. King cancer people thinking I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer B. B. King being-married married singers I've always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she's pretty. B. B. King saws my-mom mom
