I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
When I was about 16, I spent a couple of months playing at clubs in Italy with a blues band. I'll never… — David Essex Copy Share Image
When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you… — Donny Hathaway Copy Share Image
“It wasn't…too long ago. But it feels like…years ago…since I felt…the warm hello of the sun. Lately things seem a little colder,… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
Whenever I was in the dressing room on my own, I'd start playing blues to myself. One night, Bob Daisley, the bass… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
We were very deliberately not playing 12-bar structures, blues structures, which rock musicians turned into such a cliche. We tried to... listen… — Viv Albertine 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 started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
It's perhaps easier to say what prog rock isn't than what it is: it's not three-minute pop songs, it's not straightforward rock,… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
As we all know, the evil of slavery and the sting of the whip have given us many things including the voice… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I used to go round to my granddad's house on a Saturday morning, and we'd sit and eat our porridge and watch… — Rag'n'Bone Man Copy Share Image
It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole… — Matthew Rees Copy Share Image
I've been truly overwhelmed by the good luck messages I have received from the rugby world and the fantastic support I've had… — Matthew Rees Copy Share Image
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the blues, and a lot of those guys travelled all over America on Greyhound buses, listening to… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used… — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very… — Lauren Worsham Copy Share Image
The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type… — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
“The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
