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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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Riley B. King
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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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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 can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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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It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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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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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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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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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I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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