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

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.

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

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.