B. B. King Quotes


I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.


Citations

King, B.B. Interview. Academy of Achievement, 28 Oct. 2000.

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B. B. King
B. B. King
  • Born: September 16, 1925
  • Died: May 14, 2015
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter, Record Producer

Riley B. King, known professionally as B.B. King, was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. AllMusic recognized King as "the single most important electric guitarist of the last half of the 20th century".