King of the Blues Quotes

“MONEY, MUSIC, and lust inspired Riley in equal measure.”
― Daniel de Visé, King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B. B. King

“Hendrix was twenty-one and unknown. He sought an audience with B.B., who told him “about entirely new approaches to the guitar, and the powerful effect the Hawaiian and country and western pedal-steel guitars had had on him,” and how he had “achieved a cry that sounded human, that had emotion, that sang,” David Henderson writes in his Hendrix biography. B.B. pointed to his fat hands, and he explained how Jimi could use his long, supple fingers to make his guitar sound “like a woman singer’s vibrato,” like Lucille. That little chat “put enough in Jimmy’s ears to keep him occupied for months, years.”
― Daniel de Visé, King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B. B. King