B. B. King
B. B. King
Riley B. King, known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth16 September 1925
CountryUnited States of America
done want sound
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done
heaven want wanting-to-die
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
children giving want
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
people want singers
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
guitar emotion wanted
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
sadness want kind
There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
affected both cost dependence election line lines pleased rail recognize shipping sunday twice union unique
We're very pleased to see both the shipping lines and the union recognize Alaska's unique dependence on shipping, ... Everything from the Sunday funnies to election pamphlets were affected by this lockout. There is no rail line and only one highway, and it would cost about twice as much and take considerably longer.
player people blind
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.
mom saws my-mom
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.
beautiful mother player
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
couple littles next
Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.
people records cotton
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.
nice way
It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
singers married being-married
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer