B B King: Jazz is the...

Menu: Browse Below

Blog

FRANK's Components of Creativity

ENTERTAINERS > blues singer, musician > B B King

B B King: Jazz is the...

Vendor: ENTERTAINERS

Click Here for more quotes from this famous person

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.

Source: In Sunday Times (London), 4 Nov 1984.
-- B B King, (Sep 16 1925-2015), US blues singer, musician; The King of the Blues and his guitar Lucille created a signature vibrato style; his 50+ albums include Six Silver Strings, 1985; won 5 Grammys.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA