386 Blues Quotes for You to Enjoy

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so. Alexis Korner

Myself Logical Living Out Possible Admitted Given Could Never Had Suppose Make Always Becoming Intended Blues Reason Ever Playing

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. Alexis Korner

Parallel Johnny Resulted Winters Development American Movement Blues British

My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels. Alison Moyet

Soul Singing Style Torture Vocalist More Fact Major Dealing Always Been Led Referred Led Zeppelin Labels Fitzgerald Than Closer Blues Influenced Shouting English Zeppelin Ella Ella Fitzgerald

My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery. Alvin Lee

King Three Country Big Ralph Waters Montgomery Favorite City John Kings John Lee Hooker Johnson Liked Lee Listened Blues Them Bill Muddy Muddy Waters Barney Player Albert

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that. Amiri Baraka

People Old Jazz Records Liked Always Blues Race

I love the blues, but I love a lot of music. Anand Mahindra

Love Music Lot Blues

I'd been watching documentaries about early rock where white artists took 'race records' from blues and soul musicians to achieve mass appeal. I wanted to flip that and do an EP covering only white artists. Anderson Paak

That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility. Andra Day

Song Queen Control Jazz Sung Admired Attack Attacked Selection Had Sophistication She Force Because How Lines Versatility Behind Blues Loved Note Then Much Certain Painful Washington Why Her

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody. Archie Shepp

Today You Youth Quality People Black Young White Everybody Rap Out Kind Physical Only Almost Blues Anyway Young People Organically Really Speaks Element Grows

The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found them when I was ten; I didn't know what it was. But I found Lightnin' Hopkins. Ato Essandoh

Time Parents First Hopkins Ten Records Had Know First Time Were Heard Stack Blues Anymore Them Using Found Ever

I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters. August Wilson

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it. B. B. King

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others. B. B. King

Music Time Me People Mother Church Gospel Music Few Others Records Johnson Take Had Bought Like Liked Robert Robert Johnson Blind Gospel Aunt Listen Blues Lemon Used Who Jefferson Started

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things. B. B. King

I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues. Barbara Lynn

Stick Gotta Blues Roots

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues. Barry Gibb

Man People Daughter Would Majority Understand Commercial Blues Pop Working

I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music. Ben Harper

As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before. Benjamin Booker

Music Me Writing Vision First Before Stage Aggressive Batch Type Saw Melodies Guitars Take Had Knew Soon Over Make Sound Heard Blues Want Wanted Certain Ever Started Playing

On piano, I tend to write either gospel or singer-songwriter songs, sometimes kind of rocking blues songs. But the more heavier rock stuff I will write on bass. Beth Hart

Sometimes Will Bass Kind More Tend Write Piano Songs Stuff Singer-Songwriter Gospel Rock Rocking Heavier Blues Either

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things. Big Bill Broonzy

You Natural People Young Live Something Lawyers Fact Talk Cry Fellow Get Forgotten Blues Young People Now Lives Things

While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them. Bill Dedman

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