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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

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
B. B. KING

Day Forever Live Myself
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
B. B. KING

Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING

Entertainment Myself Sing Try
Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I’d go back next Saturday.
B. B. KING

Joint Money Myself Time
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

Acceptance Death Heaven Hypocrisy Irony Journey
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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Children Myself Play Reach Start Time Young
I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING

Myself Retirement Word
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
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
B. B. KING

Brother College Learning Man Music Myself Play
I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING

Divorce Marriage Myself Woman
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’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING

Care Humiliate Myself Remember
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!
B. B. KING

Death God Leaving Myself Prayer Sleep Stage Way
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’d rather be B.B. King. That’s the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other … I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.
B. B. KING

Better heavy Myself Play Start Way
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

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