Blues Quotes

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. Keith Richards
Music You Guitar Other No Point Point Picking Know Rock Rock And Roll Up Roll Any Blues Form Popular Popular Music Playing
If you are feeling some December blues, or even depression, don't fight it. Instead, do something for yourself. Be reflective. Let the emotions exist. And be encouraged that, like me, you can get to a better place, but it can take time. Brad Feld
Depression Time Me You Fight Yourself Emotions Better Feeling Some Something Better Place Take Instead Like Exist Encouraged Reflective Get December Blues Place Even
I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues. B. B. King
People Black Rich White Our Brother See Brown Red Yellow Get Trying Blues Poor Keeper
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. B. B. King
You Whatever Could Blue Blues Anymore Then Play Tonic
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington
Energy Took Some Pout Takes Merely Wrote Blues
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die. B. B. King
People World Problems Long Never Over Die Blues
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. B. B. King
Learning School College Big Jazz Starts High Brother High School Guy Higher He Like Big Brother Going Blues Play Playing
Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people. David Carson
Positive Good People Good Things Word Singing More Clear Days Like Most Singular Optimism Than Blue Just Blues Full Connotation Things Associated
Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues. Jon Bon Jovi
Time Yesterday Blues Your Waste Away
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements. Wynton Marsalis
Music Broken Man Struggle Woman Heart Joy Pain Everything Statements Out About Having Absolute Songs Most Heart Broken Affirmation Blues Social Your Elegance Universal
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you. Quincy Jones
Hope Music Day You Soul Heart World Will Rest Jazz Our We Cannot One Day Slip Recognize Telling Indigenous Only Obscurity Known Gospel Heart And Soul Legacy Afford America Blues Cannot Popular Popular Music
Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed. Alberta Hunter
Hurt Baby Our Minister Disturbed Spirit Sing Because Does Souls Been Hearts Blues Means Milk
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues. August Wilson
History You Book Our About Blacks Shame Know How Stigma America Forget Blues Want Who Slavery
Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is. Brian Eno
Music God Gospel Music Down Never Like Gospel Tubes Going Often Oh Oh My God Blues Pessimistic
The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it. John Lee Hooker
You People Down Garbage Backing TV No Choice One Thing Throat Pushing Stuff Like Got Hears Lot Get Listen Blues The One Thing Choice Choke Radio Thing
My influences in this world have always been Crazy Horse and Malcolm X, my overall influences. But I was influenced by rock n' roll, blues, and country music. I was influenced by singers. John Trudell
Music Crazy World Country Horse Country Music Overall Singers Rock Always Rock-N-Roll Malcolm Malcolm X Been Roll Blues Influenced Influences
Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues guitarist. Miles Davis
Great Me Guitarist Other Jimi Hendrix He Like Because Understood Came Blues Each Hendrix Away Right Right Away
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money. Muddy Waters
People World Money Pure Way Born Had Feel Hear Chicago Up-To-Date Same Blues Should Used Play Playing
Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. Al Jarreau
You Once Must Easy Seduced Direct Take Count Steps Blessings Make Discover Effort Get Blues Decided Then Really Your
Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly. Brad Renfro
Day Home Sit Everybody Bad Bad Boy Had Like Mostly Boy Just Blues Play Thinks
The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life. Eric Clapton
Life Me Trials My Life Relief Given Inspiration Blues Turned
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues. Jimi Hendrix
Today Singing Nothing See About Blues
The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. John Lee Hooker
Every Tells Line Blues Story Meaning
I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva. Nina Simone
Diva Singer Blues
Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right. Otis Rush
You Sing Grab Blues Them Pains Right
Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit. Taj Mahal
Healing Bad Spirit About Bad Times Particularly Times Just Blues
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