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No one can take it away from you.
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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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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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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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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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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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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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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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Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.
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Notes are expensive... spend them wisely
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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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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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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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 call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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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 gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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