B A B B Quotes

It's a damn good thing I'm not the damsel in distress type; we'd all be f*cked. ~ R.M. Gilmore

Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though ... ~ B.B. King

So do you actually expect to just pick up where we left off?" "Second chances can be deadly, but I set you free once. Now you're mine." "I ~ B.B. Reid

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another. ~ B.B. King

Quit playing Marco Polo with my ass, Christopher Columbus. This isn't an exploration, so you aren't putting your ding dong in this donut hole ~ B.B. Reid

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada. ~ Ruth Brown

You're the most beautiful nuisance. ~ B.B. Reid

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like. ~ B.B. King

Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture ~ B. B. Warfield

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. ~ Robin Trower

B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre. ~ Chris Matthews

I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it. ~ B.B. King

My only mission became to save her. I wanted to be the very person I grew up hating. I wanted to be her hero. ~ B.B. Reid

He's here," he said, his voice flat. "Best behavior."
"Best behavior? I'm not some teenager you get to order around."
He glanced back at me, his face slack and tired. "Then stop acting like one," he said. "And start seeing the world for what it is, Clair. ~ B. B. Hamel

Don't do this.
I have every intention of doing this. I have since the first time you looked at me with the same need that I felt every damn day. ~ B.B. Reid

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me. ~ B.B. King

I would just spit, burp, and call good riddance! Who needs ya? Who cares? ~ Jerry Spinelli

Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving. ~ B. B. Warfield

Today is all you have, so gather the best from it for tomorrow too quickly becomes yesterday. ~ B.B.Wright

I never use that word, retire. ~ B.B. King

Had Christ not risen we could not believe Him to be what He declared Himself when He "made Himself equal with God." But He has risen in the confirmation of all His claims. By it alone, but by it thoroughly, is He manifested as the very Son of God, who has come into the world to reconcile the world to Himself. It is the fundamental fact in the Christian's unwavering confidence in "all the words of this life. ~ B. B. Warfield

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. ~ B.B. King

the shadows may come and engulf your world, but if you look hard enough you'll always see that spark in the abyss leading you back to the light and the next adventure waiting to be had ~ B.B. Taylor

You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to look good. You ever see someone wear something that's crazy and say, 'That's so crazy!' But they look good in it, because they feel good in it - you can just tell. ~ B.o.B

In the infinite wisdom of the Lord of all the earth, each event falls with exact precision into its proper place in the unfolding of His divine plan. Nothing, however small, however strange, occurs without His ordering, or without its particular fitness for its place in the working out of His purpose; and the end of all shall be the manifestation of His glory, and the accumulation of His praise. ~ B. B. Warfield

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it. ~ B.B. King

B. B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach. ~ Ilana Mercer

I was as much her sexual prisoner as she was mine. Those would be the times I took her the hardest and unleashed my cruelty on her. ~ B.B. Reid

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music. ~ B.B. King

Notes are expensive ... spend them wisely ~ B.B. King

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues. ~ B.B. King

What if I can get you the information you need without setting him up or getting close to him? ~ B.B. Reid

Sometimes I think I enjoy pain, physically and mentally. Sick right? ~ B.B. Reid

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. ~ B.B. King

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you. ~ B.B. King

The way I see it, if I can survive the fucking apocalypse, then it makes everything I've been through mean something, you know? Like, instead of breaking me … they made me unbreakable. ~ B.B. Easton

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep ... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such. ~ B.B. King

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. ~ B.B. King

In the evening they went to say good-bye to Bilbo. 'Well, if you must go, you must,' he said. 'I am sorry. I shall miss you. It is nice just to know that you are about the place. But I am getting very sleepy.' Then he gave Frodo his mithril-coat and Sting, forgetting that he had already done so; and he gave him also three books of lore that he had made at various times, written in his spidery hand, and labelled on their red backs: Translations from the Elvish, by B. B. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

I feel like I was just one pair of insanely high heels away from getting propositioned on the street. ~ B.B. Hamel

I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices - I think that's something important is having. ~ Bridgit Mendler

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King. ~ B.B. King

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do. ~ B.B. King

And i'm thinking, aren't i supposed to be the one who's freaking out here? tiny is going to be the first b-b-b- (i can't do it) boy-f-f-f (c'mon, will) boyf-boyf (here we go) boyfriend of mine that she's ever met. ~ David Levithan

The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it. ~ B.B. King