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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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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Mississippi
Riley B. King
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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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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It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
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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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here
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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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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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