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It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

B. B. King

Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
B. B. KING

Herself Love Lying Mom
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
B. B. KING

Children Myself Yourself
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

Ground Money Place Worry Yourself
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
If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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People Song Way Yourself
May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
B. B. KING

Day Forever Live Myself
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.
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Day Music Myself People Price Record Stop
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
B. B. KING

Death Goodness Time Live Yourself
I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.
B. B. KING

Feeling Love Passion Performance Show
I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Myself Perspective Steal Thinking
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
B. B. KING

Children Love Music People Problem See Shame Yourself
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
B. B. KING

Black Sing 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
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING

Care Humiliate Myself Remember
I’ve been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Divorce Marriage Myself Woman
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

Black Foundation Taste Water White

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