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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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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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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 don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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 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
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.
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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 guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
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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 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 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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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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Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues
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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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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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