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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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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If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues.
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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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When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
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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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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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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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Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
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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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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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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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When you ain’t got no money, you got 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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.
