Blues Quotes
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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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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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There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.
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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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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
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Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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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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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.'
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I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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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 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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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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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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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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If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.
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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 like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
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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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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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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.
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The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed...
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The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.
