Blues Quotes

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The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. Its cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there.… — Gary Clark, Jr.
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless… — Billy Gibbons
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. — John Lescroart
Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not… — Leonard Cohen
When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist.… — Jimmy Page
After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly. — John Landis
Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured — Amiri Baraka
...the blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me… — Jimmy Page
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything — Bonnie Raitt
... When I heard "Pride and Joy" by Stevie Ray Vaughn on the radio, I just said "Hallelujah" .. he was just so good and… — Richard Betts
Back in the day in my teens I was listening to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery a lot; before that I was listening to what… — Larry Carlton
And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about what you know.… — Larry Coryell
For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source — Duke Robillard
James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an emperor. But, come… — Dan Aykroyd
... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was… — Yngwie Malmsteen
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. — Billy Gibbons
Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always… — Joe Satriani
The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos,… — Joe Perry
I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things,… — Eddie Van Halen
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the… — Phil Robertson

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