Blues Quotes
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If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.
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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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British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.
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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.
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It's good to see young kids getting into the blues.
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Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make you ready - blues, a lot of times, is about the loss of love.
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I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.
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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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See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
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What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.
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People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
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Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.
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I've always had a great love for the blues.
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What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.
