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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, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.
~ B. B. King
First
Jockey
Memphis
Play
Popular
Professional
Quite
Started
Tennessee
Trying
Used
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
~ B. B. King
Connect
Emotions
Guitar
Human
Human Emotions
Wanted
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
~ B. B. King
Children
Cotton
Drove
Family
Grew
Hand
Help
Must
Picked
Regular
Thing
Thinking
Thought
Up
Your
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I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
~ B. B. King
Disc
Every
Heard
Jockey
Loved
Music
Singing
Type
Who
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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 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
~ B. B. King
Always
Any
Be A Man
Born
Day
Doing
Good
Got
House
I Was Born
Inside
Kind
Live
Man
Money
Never
Out
Peek
Plantation
Poor
Rest
Room
See
Things
Thought
Well
Were
Word
You
Your
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
~ B. B. King
Corners
Generally
Gospel
Gospel Songs
Hometown
Mississippi
Play
Playing
Sit
Songs
Start
Street
Would
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street - you live in Time Square, you know how they do it - they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.
~ B. B. King
Always
Blues
Bunch
Come
Compliment
Corners
Generally
Gospel
Gospel Songs
Hometown
How
Know
Live
Me
Mississippi
People
Play
Played
Playing
Sit
Songs
Square
Start
Street
Time
Tip
Tunes
Up
Would
You
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If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
~ B. B. King
Big
Come
Fans
Food
Funeral
Help
Here
Homeless
Instead
Me
Money
Needy
Over
People
Save
Say
Some
Something
Time
Want
Waste
Where
Who
Your
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If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
~ B. B. King
Anything
Asked
Been
Before
Blues
Electric
Electric Guitar
Guitar
Had
Heard
Him
Like
Marry
Me
Never
Played
Walker
Woman
Would
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If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
~ B. B. King
Friends
Here
Ladies
Music
Planet
Those
Three
Wanna
Without
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If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
~ B. B. King
Another
Find
Get
One-Way
People
Songs
Way
You
Your
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
~ B. B. King
Bank
Blues
Borrow
Down
Dress
Going
Good
Like
Money
People
Singer
Want
You
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I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.
~ B. B. King
Able
About
Anything
Anything Else
Around
Because
Been
Careful
Eat
Else
Hands
Help
Learn
Living
Me
More
Most
Proud
Taken
Than
Very
World
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
~ B. B. King
Chords
Good
Horrible
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I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
~ B. B. King
Black
Blues
Brother
Brown
Get
Keeper
Our
People
Poor
Red
Rich
See
Trying
White
Yellow
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions - one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
~ B. B. King
After
Baptist
Caught
Choir
Church
Five
Formed
Four
Gospel
Guitar
He
His
Local
Me
Messing
Minister
Myself
Our
Play
Positions
Quartet
Sang
Taught
Three
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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
~ B. B. King
Always
Blues
Defend
Did
Idea
Mississippi
Person
Sung
Tried
Who
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I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many times... my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.
~ B. B. King
Accused
Attention
Been
Best
Children
Enough
Father
Frankly
Giving
Good
Handling
Life
Loner
Many
Me
My Life
Never
Them
Throughout
Time
Times
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
~ B. B. King
Been
Blues
Married
Most
Rather
Singer
Traveling
Twice
Women
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
~ B. B. King
Care
Humiliation
I Care
More
Put
Remember
Than
Up
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BirthDate
16 September, 1925
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14 May, 2015
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