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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

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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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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Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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 was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' till I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your restroom is not inside the house.
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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.
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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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No one can take it away from you.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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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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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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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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