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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.
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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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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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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No one can take it away from you.
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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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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
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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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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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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 guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
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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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