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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.
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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It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Hard times don't necessarily mean being poor all the time. I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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 don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.
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