Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together. — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth.… — Koko Taylor Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite films are musicals, like 'Walk the Line,' 'The Rose' and 'Lady Sings the Blues.' I just love the… — Gina Prince-Bythewood 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
I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers. — Eddie Floyd Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The first record i ever bought was the Blues Brothers' 'Briefcase Full of Blues.' I wanted to get into comedy, so I… — John Popper Copy Share Image
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
If I am going to shine in any arena, it is going to be blues and soul. — Guy Sebastian Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Is there one blues guy who was the most sophisticated and influential, like Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong in jazz? Was it… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
When Chuck Berry came along, what he did was more rock & roll than it was blues. It was more exciting. He… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love… — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I could fall asleep at 10:30 watching 'Hill Street Blues.' I might wake up at 1 A.M. and have a riff in… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
I listened to all those blues records. They were great - Clapton, John Mayall. Then eventually I heard Genesis with Peter Gabriel,… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
