Blues Quotes
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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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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.
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Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
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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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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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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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Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
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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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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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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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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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When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
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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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The blues have hope wrapped inside them.
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My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is.
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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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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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It's good to see young kids getting into 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.
