Mick Taylor Quotes
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed...
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
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Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.
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Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.
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The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
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No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.
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I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.
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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.
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I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.
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The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
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For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.
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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
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The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed...
