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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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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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There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
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When I sing, I play in my mind the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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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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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.
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I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.
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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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When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.
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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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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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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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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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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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