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.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them... So you have a right to sing the blues.
Phil Rizzuto
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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 -
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
Ruth Brown -
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 -
Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues.
Ingram Cecil Connor III The Byrds -
But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
Moira Kelly -
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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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 -
It's good to see young kids getting into the blues.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
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 -
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 -
Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
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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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 -
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 -
An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
George Wein -
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 -
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.
Hamid Drake -
If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.
Brother Ali
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When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
Etta James -
Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
Elvin Bishop -
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.
Al MacInnis -
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