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I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

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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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 wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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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 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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
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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've always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she's pretty.
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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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