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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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Mississippi
Riley B. King
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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 thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us
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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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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues
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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 you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.
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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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Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here
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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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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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