Blues Quote by Curtis Mayfield Download Open image “Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues.” — Curtis Mayfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blues Chicago Coming Heard Up
Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred. — Ralph Metcalfe Copy Share Image
I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me. — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is. — Howlin' Wolf Copy Share Image
I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Could live with you in solitude and need no one else. Give me your love.” — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
I didn't have to leave my neighborhood to be surrounded by the things that 'Super Fly' is about. It was easier than most scripts… — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
To talk about the '60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world. — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me… — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly. — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
I was writing songs from when I was 12. My songs always came from questions that I need answers for. — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able… — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me. — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself… — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
I love Las Vegas, but I never get a chance to play a club like the House of Blues. I guess we've graduated to… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
“Grits Glossary blues \’blüz\ n: nothing but a good man singing about hardship, sorrow, and the things he’s done wrong--but sake’s alive, they make… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything. — Orianthi Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long… — John Hunter Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image