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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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B. B. King
Age: 89 †
Born: 1925
Born: September 16
Died: 2015
Died: May 14
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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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Notes are expensive... spend them wisely
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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've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer
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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 don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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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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Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.
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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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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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Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues
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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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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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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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No one can take it away from you.
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