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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.

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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Mississippi
Riley B. King
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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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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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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here
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I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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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 do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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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 call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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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Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues
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I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.
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