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Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here
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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It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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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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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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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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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 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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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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