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I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!
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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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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 I sing, I play in my mind the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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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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I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
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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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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.
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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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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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