Blues Quotes
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
Otis Rush
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
Gary Oldman
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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.
Haley Reinhart
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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.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson
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I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
Oscar Isaac
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I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
Mahalia Jackson
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I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
Jackie DeShannon
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
Gary Clark Jr.
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I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
Carl Paladino
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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
Otis Rush
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Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
Count Basie
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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.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.
Ike Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
Otis Rush
