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I've never liked the lyrics that rappers use about women — all ladies to me are like angels.
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This year, I will do something like 180, 190 concerts. But that's a little less than usual. I had been averaging 230 or 240. In 1956, I did 342 one-nighters. But I was young then, and I was doing something I love to do. I didn't pay any attention until my agents told me at the end of the year: "B. B., do you know how many dates you did?" Even I was surprised at that.
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Blues had this bad image about it that made it, along with country music, something that the educated 'majority' would always put down. Blues seemed to be right at the bottom of the totem pole.
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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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The guitar I'm playin' is Lucille number sixteen. There's actually a seventeen; they made it for my seventieth birthday. But I never take it out on the road, 'cause it's got my picture on it. I like to sit it up at my house and just look at it.
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I played the Fillmore West in San Francisco in 1968 when Bill Graham owned it. I was scared, felt like a country boy out of place, but I received a standing ovation before I played and I couldn't help but cry. It was probably the best performance of my life.
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My aunt had a phonograph and when I was a good boy she'd let me play it. Every time I visited she'd want to kiss me. She dipped snuff and I hated that snuff so I begged my mother not to take me and then I'd remember the phonograph and then I'd change my mind. I'd put up with the kiss for the music.
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The younger players, my hat goes off to them. Because they are always coming up with ideas that I never thought of. I sometimes used to kind of hate myself for that: Why didn't I think of it?
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Born:
September 16, 1925
Died:
May 14, 2015
(aged 89)
Bio:
Riley B. King, known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.
Known for:
Riding with the King (2000)
Live at the Regal (1965)
Lucille (1968)
One Kind Favor (2008)
Completely Well (1969)
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