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I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

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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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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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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 wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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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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 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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It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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