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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.

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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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 do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
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I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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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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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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You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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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 don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!
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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 tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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