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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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Guitarist
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Berclair
Mississippi
Riley B. King
B.B. King
BB King
Riley Ben King
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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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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.
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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 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 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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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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Notes are expensive... spend them wisely
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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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer
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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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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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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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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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It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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