Blues Quotes
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The blues have hope wrapped inside them.
Andrea Davis Pinkney -
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.
Etta James
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I've always had a great love for the blues.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.
Dickey Betts -
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
Morgan Freeman -
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.
Phil Collen Def Leppard
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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.
Stephen Henderson -
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.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
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.
Etta James -
People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
Etta James -
What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.
Harry Dean Stanton -
What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.
Eugene O'Neill