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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.
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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Berclair
Mississippi
Riley B. King
B.B. King
BB King
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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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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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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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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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Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
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Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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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 can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.
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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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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Hard times don't necessarily mean being poor all the time. I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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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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I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
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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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Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.
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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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