“The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday n...” — B. B. King Quote

“The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!”

“Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.”

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

“My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.”

“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.”

“Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.”

“In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.”

“Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.”

“I travel light, but always with three key things: Passport, cash and iPod. The latter is perhaps the most key - it keeps me going at the gym or on the plane; I listen to everything from rock to country to blues.”

“I would be on dates with guys, and the radio would be on, and if the Moody Blues song came on I couldn't concentrate on the guy; I would go straight into the music.”

“What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.”