Blues Quotes
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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.
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Carvin Jones is one of the brightest young stars on the blues scene today.
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Well I wanna lay. I wanna lie down with my skinny blues.
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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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I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
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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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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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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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Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.
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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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But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
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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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Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
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Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues.
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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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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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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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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 loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
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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.
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There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
