When you think blues, you think BB King. Even a young kid can look at a picture of BB King and say, 'the blues.' The man is more than a musician. He's a monument.
Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy.
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
Eric Clapton was such a great player. He sounds like he's Freddie King or someone like that. He plays the roots of blues and Delta blues. He really affected me with the way that he plays, because he never really plays that many notes.
I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.
Little Walter I would've liked to have played with.
I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.
Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.
When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.
To me, meeting Buddy Guy was like meeting a piece of history.
But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.
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.
Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.
Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.
I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and king of the blues has died. I have cherished him and so has the rest of the world who knew him and loved him for his entire career. As we pain, we must celebrate that his music, his style of playing and singing will last forever, from the recordings that he has done and the influence that he has had and will have on guitarists all over this planet. Long live the spirit of B.B. King.
Skip James, for me, is the meaning of the blues.
I heard Robert Johnson way before I heard about Eric Clapton.
I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.
Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues
One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.' ...The thrill will never be gone.
For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did.
Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
