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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.

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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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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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 do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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