I remember being in jail, like, 'Man, I'm not old enough.' And then I thought, 'I just turned 18.' I had just turned old enough to be in big people jail.
I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'
When I'm writing Broadway, it's for a character, a man, a woman, an old guy, a kid. In the band, you're talking in your own voice in the lyrics, saying what you think or feel. On Broadway, you're expressing that through a character.
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
I'll die a crazy old man!
I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.
I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion.
I listen to old music, man.
The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.
My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.
