“I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing th...” — B. B. King Quote

“I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.”

“If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.”

“Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.”

“I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.”

“I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.”

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

“The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.”

“When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'”

“I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.”

“I'm trained in classical music, and my favourites have always been rock n' roll and blues, but I've grown up with different kinds of music around me because of my parents.”

“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”

“Just because you're from up north, it's not like the blues are a regional thing. It's just all about what moves you.”