B. B. King Quotes

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

I have always strived to do something different, to push myself.

It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

I do not seek. I find.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.