Blues Quotes

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You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's… — Art Blakey
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music — Aaron Neville
All blues singers are great liars. — Lester Bangs
No... the blues are because you're getting fat or because it's been raining too long. You're just sad, that's all. The mean reds are horrible.… — Holly Golightly
Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich… — John Keegan
A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And off to west… — Travis Tritt
Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make… — Stephen Stills
As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up.… — Boz Scaggs
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the… — Boz Scaggs
There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah, — Townes Van Zandt
What isnâ€™t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton.… — Michele Norris
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer. — Miles Davis
What about a blues in W, in the key of W. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a… — Horace Silver
I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues… — Jelly Roll Morton
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out… — Jelly Roll Morton
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd… — Fats Waller
To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them… — Geezer Butler
Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are… — Mick Taylor
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially… — Mick Taylor

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