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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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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Riley B. King
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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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Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here
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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 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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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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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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I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us
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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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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues
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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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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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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.
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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.
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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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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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