Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression… — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
I'm going to make the music I make regardless and it's always going to be driven by rhythm and blues and hopefully… — PartyNextDoor Copy Share Image
When the blues came out, it was something pure and undefined, but when all these white groups got hold of it, it… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The first thing I heard was spiritual music, which was imbedded. The second thing I heard was swing. And shortly, along with… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
When we were starting, the only old guys you'd see on stage were blues guys. They played every night, feast or famine,… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
The instrumental stuff is a good challenge, and it keeps my fingers athletically tuned, but I'm totally happy to bang away on… — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there,… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar.… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting.… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
I am so weak over love and heartbreak. My music is rhythm and blues and with that said, the blues element of… — Adrian Marcel Copy Share Image
I feel I've had three careers in one, really. There was the 'Benny Santini' stuff; that came with a general sense of,… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters,… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
“The Blues are a simple music and I’m a simple man. But the Blues aren’t a science, the Blues can’t be broken… — Johnny Ferreira Copy Share Image
My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
“Night after night on starry wings Night lovers soared so high Miles apart, across the oceans Their love forgot to sigh In… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. .… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think… — Vivian Campbell Copy Share Image
James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
I remember, after my first postpartum depression, I didn't know what had happened to me. I was stuck in this gray depression… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
“John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe,… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
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