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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

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Connection Emotional Guitar Human
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
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 gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.
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Children Myself 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.
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Animal Help Nature Need Ourselves Planet Protect World
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
If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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People Song Way Yourself
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Black Sing Time
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
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
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 never use that word, retire.
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Myself Retirement Word
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Herself Love Lying Mom
There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
B. B. KING

Happiness Kind Music Sadness Yourself
Playing guitar is like telling the truth.
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Guitar One Liner Play Truth
And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Death Music People Problem
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Black Foundation Taste Water White
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.
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Education Oneself Yourself
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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Family Growth Man Myself Stand Teaching
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
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
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Hard Work Room Scale Sleep Try
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
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
B. B. KING

Friendship Guitar Myself Old
Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
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Friendship Music Myself
Notes are expensive, spend them wisely.
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Expensive Spent Wisdom
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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Blood Connection Music Myself

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