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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.

B. B. King

I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
B. B. KING

Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
B. B. KING

Cry Guitarist Happy Myself Place Play
I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
B. B. KING

Feeling Freedom Lunch Myself Pay Responsibility
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
B. B. KING

Death Music People Problem
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
B. B. KING

Education Oneself Yourself
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
B. B. KING

Friendship Music Myself
When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING

Mindset Myself Oral Play Sing
I can’t think of anyone I’ve mistreated. I’ve always thought that I am my brother’s keeper. And I believe there’s a ‘great spirit’ that takes care of all of us.
B. B. KING

Believe Care Greatness Ourselves Thinking Treat
I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
B. B. KING

Knowledge Man Myself Thinking Wisdom
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
B. B. KING

Friendship Guitar Myself Old
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.
B. B. KING

Animal Help Nature Need Ourselves Planet Protect World
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.
B. B. KING

Better Goodness Guitar Himself Music Myself Play
I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. KING

Count Missing Myself Play
You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
B. B. KING

Life Missing Yourself
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

Acceptance Death Heaven Hypocrisy Irony Journey
I don’t do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That’s why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.
B. B. KING

Day Music Myself People Price Record Stop

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