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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 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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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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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Notes are expensive... spend them wisely
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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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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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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
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Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here
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I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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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We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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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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