Blues Quotes
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
Morgan Freeman
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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.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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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.
Ruth Brown
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Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
Elvin Bishop
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When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.
Chester Burnett
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Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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The blues have hope wrapped inside them.
Andrea Davis Pinkney
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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.
Chester Burnett
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We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
Ruth Brown
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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.
Al MacInnis
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I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.
Billy Gibbons ZZ Top
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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.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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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.
Willie Dixon
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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.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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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.
Etta James
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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.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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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...
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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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.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
George Wein
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Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.
Phil Collen Def Leppard
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When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
Etta James
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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.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience