I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice…
Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.
Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven’t yet done.
Dream is not the thing what you see in sleep, dream is the thing that does not let you sleep.
All I do is defend myself. Nothing more.
The point [of the PR industry] is to undermine markets by projecting imagery to delude and suppressing information-and similarly, to undermine democracy by the same method.
I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.
Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won’t call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate.
I’m a product of pop culture.
My daughter hasn’t seen me with anybody in five years. I’m very, very selective when it comes to that because I want to make sure that it’s real. I don’t want her to see me with just anybody because she means everything to me.
Life has two rules: 1. Never quite 2. Always remember 1.
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
Love is the absence of judgment.
Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it’ scale.
What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
