Blues Quotes
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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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The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.
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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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Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do 'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.
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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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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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I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
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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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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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I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
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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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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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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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I’m sitting on top of the blues. I’m a bluesman who’s sitting on the top of my game, proud of what I do and proud of who I and thankful for people accepting me for what I am and who I am. I’m happy about what I’m doing and still enthused about what I’m doing. An I think we’ve got some good songs.
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Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues.
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When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.
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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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There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.
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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.
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But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
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We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
