New Orleans is just so full of culture in the music content - blues, folk. I was introduced to a lot of… — Luke James Copy Share Image
I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues. — Georgia Holt Copy Share Image
I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
I travel light, but always with three key things: Passport, cash and iPod. The latter is perhaps the most key - it… — Rande Gerber Copy Share Image
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band... easy to listen to. — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music,… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who really had it hard. In… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“There’s something lyrical about an eternal truth. It’s a graceful riff. A free-flowing melody. Light and airy, it floats all around you.… — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
I listen to lots of blues records and some of them are funny. BB King's 'How Blue Can You Get' is hilarious. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
It's so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that's related to the blues. — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make… — Stephen Henderson Copy Share Image
I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
I think you can hear the Delta blues thing in something like the intro to 'Heaven in This Hell,' which has that… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
“And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.” — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are… — David Edwards 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
The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing. — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
