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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 sing, I play in my mind the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
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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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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 call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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.
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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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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 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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I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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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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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Notes are expensive... spend them wisely
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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