B. B. King Quotes

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

Even Angus says that Malcolm is a better guitarist than he is. He makes the drummer's job so easy, he's a metronome.

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

I've heard the stories. Like, Eric Clapton said he wanted to burn his guitar when he heard Jimi Hendrix play. I never understood that because, when I went and saw a great drummer or heard one, all I wanted to do was practice.

I was definitely not one of those kids prodigy guitar players.

There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.

I'm not a good guitar player.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert or Chopin or Beethoven, though Beethoven had a very difficult time writing melody, too.

I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I could play the way people I admire play.

I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

I think Jerry Lee is sad. As a musician, he was far more talented than Elvis Presley. Everybody down in Memphis knows that. Elvis became a movie star because he was beautiful. Not that Elvis wasn't talented, but Jerry Lee Lewis was incomprehensibly talented as a musician.

You can tune your guitar funky, and something's gonna come out. There's no secret to it - either you got it, or you don't.

The fact that I'm not a good musician - I throw it around, tell people that - it doesn't matter that much. It only matters to me, because I idolized good musicians. I absolutely worshiped them.

I'm not a guitar hero.

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.

I like to believe that I play bass like Dusty Hill, and that's something nobody else can do as well as me. I'm the best Dusty Hill I know.

My wife is an incredible pianist. I don't think there's anything my wife can't do, in all actuality.

For the record, Jeff Jarret cannot play guitar. Honky Tonk Man cannot play guitar. Elias? Guitar, piano, harmonica, drums, you name it. I can do anything.