B.B.King，原名Riley B. King，美国歌手、吉他演奏家、作曲家、布鲁斯（BLUES）王国的主宰。他可以在任何地方录音，作品既有纯布鲁斯的，也有乡村音乐风格的，还有流行和摇滚的，但每一种形式中都夹杂着布鲁斯的成分。
I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.
我有一辆好车，一辆奔驰。然后我有一辆El Camino的旧卡车我很喜欢。我喜欢上那辆卡车，到维加斯我住的地方附近的山上去，带上我的相机。对我来说，那就是天堂，在大自然中，拍摄野生动物的照片。
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.
我没有写过最喜欢的歌。但我确实有一首最喜欢的歌：威利·纳尔逊版的《永远在我的脑海里》。如果我能像他那样唱，我会每晚都唱。我喜欢它讲的故事。
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
我不擅长和弦。我的和弦很糟糕。
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
爵士乐是蓝调的老大哥。如果一个人像我们一样演奏蓝调，那他就是高中生了。当他开始演奏爵士乐就像上大学，上高等学校。
I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
我在100名最佳吉他手的名单上见过自己，如果他们认为我那么好，谢谢他们。感谢上帝。但我不这么认为。
If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
如果到时候我的歌迷想为我做点什么，我说，不要把钱浪费在我身上。帮助无家可归的人。帮助穷人。。。没有食物的人。。。而不是一些大型葬礼，他们从这里来，那里和各地。省省吧。
When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
当我们进入第二次世界大战时，我是一个拖拉机司机。我在种植园里开拖拉机。所以当他们开始打电话给我18岁以上的人时，我就是他们打电话给的人。
Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.
每当我在堪萨斯城，我都会想起所有在这里演奏蓝调的爵士蓝调巨星——比如巴西伯爵、查理·帕克和杰伊·麦克尚恩。我看着那些家伙在不同的地方堵车，听到了很多事情——但我做不到他们所做的。他们太好了。