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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

Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.
B. B. KING

Beautiful Country Leaving Myself People Scene
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Friendship Music Myself
I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
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Feeling Freedom Lunch Myself Pay Responsibility
May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
B. B. KING

Day Forever Live Myself
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.
B. B. KING

Audience Kind Myself Night Personality Time
You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.
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Life Missing 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 put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Guitar One Liner Play Truth
It’s going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.
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Contribution Himself Music People Realization
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
B. B. KING

Acceptance Evidence Explanation Natural People Problem Religion Universe
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 tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an’ my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
B. B. KING

Connection Guitar Myself Try Voice
God made Blues right after he made woman.
B. B. KING

Creation God Music Woman

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.

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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.

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