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I never use that word, retire.

B. B. King

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 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
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
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING

Blue Call Guitar Man Myself Sing
Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
B. B. KING

Blue Himself Love Unique
It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
B. B. KING

Instrument Music Myself Play Style Way
If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING

People Song Way Yourself
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you’re going to the bank to borrow money.
B. B. KING

Bank Goodness Money People Sing Yourself
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he’s my favorite.
B. B. KING

Greatness Guitar Himself World
I’ve always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she’s pretty.
B. B. KING

Beautiful Lady Life Myself Start Woman
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
B. B. KING

Hard Music Person Sing
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

Black Foundation Taste Water White
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
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’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING

Care Humiliate Myself Remember
I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Knowledge Man Myself Thinking Wisdom

I never use that word, retire.

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