B. B. King

I’m still searching even today for a sound, like the guy that’s searching for a home. I haven’t been able to find that completely. I’m satisfied at times with the sound of my guitar… but it is a little sound that I hear but I can’t tell anybody about it. I don’t know how. But if I ever get it, I’ll know.

T-Bone was, to me, that sound of being in heaven.

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

To me, singing is like talking. If it ain’t natural, it ain’t right.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I’d never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

You know I don’t wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn’t make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious…

The most you get is what you ask for.

There ain’t no freedom when you’ve got a worrying mind.

Life is like improvised jazz. We cannot regulate all the variables. We must play it with panache and flair as best we can.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Love is not the absence of hate; hate will always exist. Love is holding our head high and forever moving forward with kindness and compassion in spite of what hate may bring, because no amount of darkness can drown out our light if our light has been lit within.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.