Blues Quotes

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I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed. — Johnny Rivers
Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them. — John Goodman
In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots… — Rick Derringer
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues. — John Mayall
I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt. — Jonah Lomu
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. — Willie Dixon
Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts. — Steve Cropper
My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so… — Steve Cropper
Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help. — Mahalia Jackson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. — James Weldon Johnson
Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is… — Polly Berrien Berends
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off… — Jack White
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have… — Jack White
I was always a closet blues player. — Tito Jackson
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music. — Ben Harper
Well, I grew up on the blues, man! — Gil Scott-Heron
I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues. — David Edwards
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed… — Jon Landau
The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness… — Jon Landau
When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down.… — Dan Auerbach

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