Blues Quotes
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Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
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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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When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.
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I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.
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It was the names of these four men that reminded me why playing for the Blues is as good as it gets in the National Hockey League.
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Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
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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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I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.
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And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.
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If it wasn't for guys like Gary Moore, I wouldn't exist. He not only proved that the blues could rock but it could draw a crowd as well. All of which made a huge impression on me.
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If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues.
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I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
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Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play...
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We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
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The blues, the way it's interpreted, is always a product of your environment, and so it's almost like food. You know, it's like you use the ingredients, and you use your life experiences that you have.
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That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to hip music - but it's just blues twisted a new way - while I'm playing for the college kid's parents.
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Most blues guitar players don't concentrate on singing and melodies. And forget about the bridge - the bridge doesn't exist. They go straight for the solo.
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When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
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The blues have hope wrapped inside them.
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An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
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I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
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The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
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I am truly honored that the Blues have elected to retire my number, and I'm flattered to join the list of players who have been recognized before me. I will always consider myself part of the Blues family and will look back on my playing days here with fond memories of my teammates, my coaches, the staff and, last but not least, the fans.
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If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.
