Blues Quotes
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Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do 'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.
Eddie Cochran
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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.
Joe Bonamassa
Black Country Communion
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Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.
Albert Collins
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Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
Albert Collins
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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.
Ben Harper
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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.
Etta James
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But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
Moira Kelly
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Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues.
Ingram Cecil Connor III
The Byrds
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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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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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.
John Graham Mellor
The 101ers
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
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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.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
