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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

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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There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
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I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
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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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Hard times don't necessarily mean being poor all the time. I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.
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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt, who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and a few others.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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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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Notes are expensive... spend them wisely
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us
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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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