Blues Quotes
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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 -
Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
Otis Rush
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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 -
I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
R. Kelly -
I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
Barbara Lynn -
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.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
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.
Walter Kirn -
Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
Otis Rush
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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
Earl King -
Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
Dan Castellaneta -
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.
Olivia Wilde -
Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
Mahalia Jackson -
Hearing the blues changed my life.
Van Morrison -
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.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
Sam Shepard -
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.
B. B. King -
I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
Dane Cook -
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.
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe -
If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
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.
Hayley Mills
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I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful.
Andy Griffith -
If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
Zeppelin were a blues band but also so much more, as were The Stones.
Phil Collen Def Leppard -
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.
Joe Perry Aerosmith