The first record I heard as a kid? My dad is a great soul and blues fan, so he showed me James… — Bakermat Copy Share Image
In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Everything we do is so soulful. It's actually a blend of gospel, blues, country and funk, but it's all soulful where we're… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
I was a late bloomer, but I realised that people really liked it when I played blues scales and, with the piano,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm… — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago,… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so long that I take… — Steve Burns 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
The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I know that for category purposes, people have to lump certain artists in with genre that they make their name or their… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
When you look at so much of what we all love, there's either soul-based to it, or it's the blues. It's really… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
I'm sort of East Coast, so I like the off-white and the navy blues and the low-key preppy kind of thing. — Stephanie Courtney Copy Share Image
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I figured, if someone wants to do classical music, or blues, or jazz, they move to an area where that's popular, and… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear… — Angus Young 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'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed… — Charlie Siem Copy Share Image
For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level. — Scott Henderson Copy Share Image
I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better… — Charlie Rich Copy Share Image
I think there's no limit on what I've really spoken on in terms of my perspective on my blues as a woman… — Raye Copy Share Image
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming… — Merry Clayton Copy Share Image
In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul. — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life. — Lewis Gordon Copy Share Image
Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all… — Alberta Hunter Copy Share Image
I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton… — Jon Tenney Copy Share Image
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