B. B. King

Ignorance is bliss? That’s bull, far as I’m concerned. Because I was making a half a cent a side – one penny for a record. It’s like building buses, for example. If you built this bus for me and I didn’t know anything about it, you could charge me whatever I’d pay for it. Now, which one of us is crazy? Me. And that’s the way they did me on the records. But I don’t fault them for it, because if you don’t know, you don’t know. It took me to learn.

I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

I’ve seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I’m that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don’t think so.

I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.

We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

I have so much more to go through as a young lady. But oh my God. I feel like I can do anything.

And let’s be clear: It’s not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren’t healthy. It’s also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.

I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we’d done it in England, there’s no reason why we couldn’t do it in America too.

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I’ve improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

I think every kid needs to get a taste of what it’s like to do that real hard work.

Kids instinctively know – although they will argue to the contrary – that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

They say that every child learns from their mother – it’s ingrained from babyhood.

When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.