Most blues guitar players don't concentrate on singing and melodies. And forget about the bridge - the bridge doesn't exist. They go… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day. — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
Having pop sensibilities from my past and also being a lead blues and sort of rock guitarist allowed me to bring that… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
The blues needs to be everything to you, otherwise it's not going to come across. That's what I think. — Gary Moore 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
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
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
“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
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
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues.… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness… — Corey Harris Copy Share Image
There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion… — Chuck Close 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
The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
I really want to concentrate of the blues again and do it properly, which is something I feel I didn't do before. — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing… — Paul Butterfield Copy Share Image
I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer. Many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side… — India Arie Copy Share Image
I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There's a lot of struggling and a lot of activity going on in my playing. Blues Traveler adopted that style. People will… — John Popper Copy Share Image
I know that a man ain't supposed to cry but these tears can't hold inside losin' you would end my life you… — Roger Troutman Copy Share Image
There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about… — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues… — Alberta Hunter Copy Share Image
I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody… — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings. — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues,… — Casey James Copy Share Image
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