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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. King
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B. B. King
Age: 89 †
Born: 1925
Born: September 16
Died: 2015
Died: May 14
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Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.
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When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.
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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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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.
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Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues,' they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I'm trying to satisfy.
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When I sing, I play in my mind the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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No one can take it away from you.
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You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.
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I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little juke joints not far from where I lived, and I used to go there. They wouldn't let me play inside, but I could sit outside on the weekends, when it wasn't raining or something.
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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.
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When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.
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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.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' till I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your restroom is not inside the house.
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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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