Jimmy Rushing Quotes

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• I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.
• The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.
• The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please…
• It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.
• This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and…
• When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are…
• If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.
• There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure…
• I liked roaming around by myself.
• Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's…
• The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

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