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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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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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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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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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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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No one can take it away from you.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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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.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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