B. B. King Quotes

I can't really grip the ball with my left hand.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

When you work at a microscopic level, you have to control every part of your body movement - your fingertips, your joints, the pulse in your fingers.

If any other part of your body has some weakness, you go, 'Well I can probably manage.' But when you're a quarterback, and it's your right hand, you're certainly concerned far as being able to do your job.

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

When you watch your favorite guitarists play, notice how little their hands and fingers move sometimes. The economy of motion can't be overemphasized.

I felt something in my hip but I thought it was something little. It got worse and worse over time, to the point where I couldn't sit down. That's when I knew something was wrong.

My back isn't great.

My hands make me a little longer, and that's always a good thing.

Technically I don't play sports because I have two left feet and I cannot coordinate and my motor skills are a bit 'out of whack.'

My chops have always been sort of weak, because the right side of my body was paralyzed a little bit. It was very limiting. I have to design stuff I can play, and it took me a year and a half to figure out how to hold a guitar pick.

One of the problems trying to play an instrument outside in the cold is your fingers give up on you and you can't wear gloves, even fingerless.

The Germans wit is in his fingers.

I've got such effeminate hands. I could never be strong. Whenever I even got to a save, my fingers would just bend back and the ball would hit me in the face.

You can't have problems with hand movement, if you're going to be a good putter.

A lot of blues guitarists play with only three fingers, and they can't figure out certain runs that require the use of their little fingers. Classical training is good for that.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.