Blues Quotes
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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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We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
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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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But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
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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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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
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It's good to see young kids getting into the blues.
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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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An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
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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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The blues have hope wrapped inside them.
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I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.
