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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.
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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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.
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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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 wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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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 call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
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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 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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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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 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'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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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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