Blues Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Zeppelin were a blues band but also so much more, as were The Stones.
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What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records... The roots of rock'n'roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at.
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I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
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Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.
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But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
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Well I wanna lay. I wanna lie down with my skinny blues.
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I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
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My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is.
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I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
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But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
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Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.
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Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
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Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them... So you have a right to sing the blues.
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I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
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The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.
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Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do 'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.
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Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues.
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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The blues have hope wrapped inside them.
