Blues Quotes
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
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My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
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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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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
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I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.
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This be an empty world without the blues.
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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.
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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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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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Remember what I told you about the blues? If you're not risking nothing, neither would they.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.
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My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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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'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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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
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When you think blues, you think BB King. Even a young kid can look at a picture of BB King and say, 'the blues.' The man is more than a musician. He's a monument.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
