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You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.

B. B. King

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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Acceptance Death Heaven Hypocrisy Irony Journey
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
I don’t think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Myself Perspective Steal Thinking
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.
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Connection Guitar Myself Try Voice
God made Blues right after he made woman.
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Creation God Music Woman
I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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Count Missing Myself Play
Hard times don’t necessarily mean being poor all the time. I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
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Family Hard Time Hurt Myself Necessary People Possible
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
I never use that word, retire.
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Myself Retirement Word
I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.
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Knowledge Man Myself Thinking Wisdom
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.
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Better heavy Myself Play Start Way
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
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
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
I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.
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Afford Alcohol Myself Wine
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
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Death Goodness Time Live Yourself
Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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Acceptance Evidence Explanation Natural People Problem Religion Universe
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
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
Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.
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Blue Himself Love Unique
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.
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Feeling Good Health Myself People Way
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.
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Instrument Music Myself Play Style Way
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
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’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
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.
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Beautiful Lady Life Myself Start Woman

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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