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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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson
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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 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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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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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 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.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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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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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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I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
Eddie Money
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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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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
L'Wren Scott
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Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.
Ronnie Wood
The Rolling Stones
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When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
Gary Clark Jr.
