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Blues Quotes by Wynton Marsalis
- New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional…
- Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds good…
- I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like…
- Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.
- The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and…
- Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain…
- I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the…
- The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in…
- Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country…
- We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
More Blues Quotes
- The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are… — Russell Baker
- Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues. — Count Basie
- Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated. — Ritchie Blackmore
- I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined. — Ritchie Blackmore
- Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. — Christina Aguilera
- Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know… — Jeff Bridges
- 'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song. — Luke Bryan
- I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it… — Gary Allan
- The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body. — Nick Cave
- I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that… — Nick Cave
- What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do… — Ray Charles
- The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life. — Eric Clapton