Blues Quotes
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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 grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.
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Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.
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When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
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I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.
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Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.
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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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Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
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When you're 12 and, you know, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're playing blues, you get a lot of press.
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I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
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The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity.
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Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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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 idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
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I’m sitting on top of the blues. I’m a bluesman who’s sitting on the top of my game, proud of what I do and proud of who I and thankful for people accepting me for what I am and who I am. I’m happy about what I’m doing and still enthused about what I’m doing. An I think we’ve got some good songs.
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In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.
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Carvin Jones is one of the brightest young stars on the blues scene today.
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That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.
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Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.
