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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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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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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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues
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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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