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I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.

B. B. King

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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Appreciation Crowd Myself Name People Treat
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
I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
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Audience Kind Myself Night Personality Time
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Death Music People Problem
God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Creation God Music Woman
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
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Greatness Guitar Himself World
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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Death God Leaving Myself Prayer Sleep Stage Way
I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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Entertainment Myself Sing Try
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 call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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Blue Call Guitar Man Myself Sing
I never use that word, retire.
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Myself Retirement Word
Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
B. B. KING

Blood Brother Music Myself
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
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
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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Mindset Myself Oral Play Sing
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Education Oneself Yourself

I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.

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