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Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.

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
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
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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Children Love Music People Problem See Shame Yourself
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
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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Care Humiliate Myself Remember
A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
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Day Learning Myself Wasted Time
May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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Day Forever Live Myself
A lot of people believe what other people say.
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Believe People Talk
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
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Friendship Guitar Myself Old
The Blues? It’s the mother of American music. That’s what is is – the source.
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Beginning Mom Music Source
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.
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Beautiful Country Leaving Myself People Scene
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.
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Day Music Myself People Price Record Stop
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Black Sing Time
Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.
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Hard Music Person Sing
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin’ too.
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Herself Love Lying Mom
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.
B. B. KING

Appreciation Crowd Myself Name People Treat

Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.

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