Blues Quotes
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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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 probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.
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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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When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.
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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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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 I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
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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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Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
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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.
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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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Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
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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 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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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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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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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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A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
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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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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.
