David Edwards Quotes

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

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

My grandmother introduced me to B.B. King. She wasn't someone who had a lot of posters, but there was a big poster of B.B. King on the wall as soon as you walked into her house in Meridian, Mississippi.

Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters was just the king. He was the King Bee. He was it.

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

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

I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

To me, meeting Buddy Guy was like meeting a piece of history.

Any time you get to see Paul McCartney, it is pretty special.

I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with.

I've always liked Tina Turner.

John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.

To this day, there's nobody, nobody that sounds like Janice Joplin.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas, and he would play the blues.