American Quotes

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

I never use that word, retire.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

A lot of people believe what other people say.

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

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president.

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.

If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.

I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me.

I'm about unity.

Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader.

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.

A woman knows a skirt-chaser.

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.