Blues Quotes
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I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
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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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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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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.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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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.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
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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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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 love blues. My grandfather did blues.
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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.
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Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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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.
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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.
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I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
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I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
