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B. B. King

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B. B. King
Age: 89 †
Born: 1925
Born: September 16
Died: 2015
Died: May 14
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
Berclair
Mississippi
Riley B. King
B.B. King
BB King
Riley Ben King
Notes
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I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.
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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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When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.
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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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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
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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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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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Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.
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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've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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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'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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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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