Blues Quotes

They're great players. I'm not a Blues Traveler fan, though. I get it, but it's not for me. Matt Skiba

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It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole squad did it. At first I thought it was only going to be a handful of boys, but fair play, they all did it, and a few of the coaches as well. Matthew Rees

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They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records. Maurice Gibb

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I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.' Merry Clayton

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Whenever I sing blues from the '50s or the kind of blues that you might have heard Eric Clapton or Duane Allman emulate, I often feel the similarity of some of the ragtime stuff I sang early on. A lot of the phrasing and the harmonization is the same. Michael McDonald

House of Blues has soul right down to the chef in the kitchen. Michael Rapino

Soul Down Kitchen House Chef Blues Right

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is. Mick Fleetwood

Inspiring Songs Most Often Blues

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music. Mick Ralphs

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues. Mick Ralphs

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Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female. Mick Taylor

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The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed. Mick Taylor

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All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. Mose Allison

Jazz Classic Lot Blues Sang Players

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues. Muddy Waters

I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha. Natalie Cole

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years. Nathaniel Rateliff

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It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues. Neil Young

Pretending Blue Blues Sudden Now Album

Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk, which was kind of DIY, was that it created a kind of creative place that was kind of without limits, in a way. Neneh Cherry

Eric Clapton was such a great player. He sounds like he's Freddie King or someone like that. He plays the roots of blues and Delta blues. He really affected me with the way that he plays, because he never really plays that many notes. Orianthi

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot. Oscar Isaac

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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues. Otis Rush

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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues. Otis Rush

You World Will Promise Give Guy Blues Nothin

I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive. Patty Griffin

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As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues. Paul Dini

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With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only song that stayed from our blues past was 'The Hunter' by Albert King. People just loved that. And I said, 'We have to write a song that will top that - otherwise, what are we doing here?' That was the birth of 'All Right Now.' Paul Rodgers

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