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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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'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.
B. B. King
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 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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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.
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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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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 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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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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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.
B. B. King
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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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.
B. B. King
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
B. B. King
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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It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
B. B. King
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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.
B. B. King
I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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