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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 call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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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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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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 wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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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Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues
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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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I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.
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Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
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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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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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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.
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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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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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 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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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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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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