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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

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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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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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 guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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