B. B. King Quotes

I love performing. I'll never get that out of me.

Sometimes I'm dragging my ass out to the airport at 8 a.m. on a Saturday and I'm wondering why I'm doing this, but once I walk on stage I know why...because I'm addicted.

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

I relish performing.

For me, there's nothing like performing.

I'm a performer. That's what I do. That and making money - it's the passion and the care factor for the people that support your passion, the people that support you, it's the kind of people that go crazy and love your stuff.

Whether it's five people or 50,000 people, I always love to perform and feel very blessed that I'm able to do that.

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

Have fun. Especially while you're still young, you gotta keep the spark up. Even when things get boring, just remember to have fun.

I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.

People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.

On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

I love performing.

If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I'm 63, but I don't feel it. I feel like I'm in my 40s. I enjoy life.

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.