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B. B. King

(1925–2015) Guitarist

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B. B. King was a guitarist.

Quick Facts About B. B. King

Born: September 16, 1925
Died: May 14, 2015
Profession: Guitarist

About B. B. King

[Wikidata] American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (1925–2015)... | [Wikipedia] Riley B. King, known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato, and staccato picking that influenced many later electric guitar blues players

Quotes by B. B. King

Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O'…

Clock

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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Heaven

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My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her…

Being nice

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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving…

Drop

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Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous…

America

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Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

Blood

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Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told…

Asks

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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…

Get away

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There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want…

All kinds

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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage.…

America

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I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places…

Crossover

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There was a lot of other young players around at that time when I was coming, but there was older people like…

Blind

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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People…

Attention

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Hard times don't necessarily mean being poor all the time. I've known people that was a part of a family and always…

Family

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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

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I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis,…

First

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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because…

About

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I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Blues

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Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.

Guitarist

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Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages…

Being sad

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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

Being married

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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word…

Be a man

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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking…

Guitar

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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

Bleeding

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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

Emotion

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