387 Blues Quotes for You to Enjoy

I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. Ronnie Spector

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Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion. Ronnie Wood

White Invasion Only Most Discovered American Blues British

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues. Ruth Brown

Sing Prove Forever Trying Anybody Blues Place Lives

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now. Ruth Brown

Longer Course Green Blues Different Now

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues. Ruth Brown

Time Nowadays Background Find Songs Sing Because Dealing Were Done Anybody Blues Decided Who Things Need

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it. Ry Cooder

Life Know Understand Listened Blues Whole Play

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing. Ry Cooder

Humble Earth Close Mournful Pathetic Blues Nostalgic Sentimental Expressive Thing

I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it. Sam Shepard

Country Else Guess Feel Stuff Like Mostly Real Western Blues

The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most direct, bare-bones of content. There is no interference between the head and heart. Shawn Amos

Heart Simple Sometimes Direct Head Between Most Content Repeat Verse Optional Blues Interference Electricity Bars Even Chorus Four

I'm trained in classical music, and my favourites have always been rock n' roll and blues, but I've grown up with different kinds of music around me because of my parents. Shruti Haasan

Blues, rock, and soul are part of the music I make, but there are Indian influences, too. Shruti Haasan

Music Soul Too Indian Part Make Rock Blues Influences

One thing the blues ain't, is funny. Stephen Stills

Funny One Thing Blues Thing

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players. Stephen Stills

Better Thought Were Hear Times Going Blues Turn Then Players

'Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so long that I take it very personally. I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize what so many kids love. So there's a lot of responsibility there. Steve Burns

The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player. Steve Vai

You People Better First Few Bend Seventh Scale Like Learned First Thing Because Sound Real Authentic The First Thing Just Blues Flat Them Notes Cool Using Thing Player

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic. Steve Winwood

Music World Problems Jazz Folk Slot Tried Combine Since Sure Rock Always Traffic Done Blues Really World Music

I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, 'Oh, I did 'Hill Street Blues' or 'L.A. Law' and everything I do has to measure up to some preconceived notion of that,' it would paralyze you. Steven Bochco

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But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places. Stevie Ray Vaughan

Musicians Black White Living Sets Other Having Point Between Over Got Making Hear Sneak Blues Where Places Clubs Fun

One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk. Sufjan Stevens

The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that. Taj Mahal

Music You People Song Thought Way Out Something Had Missed Lot Mic Blues Swagger Certain Bark Certain Way

I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language. Taj Mahal

Me People Language Relatives Caribbean Latin Direct Part Well Always Cousin Cousins Were Taught African Blues

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