Blues Quote by Dickey Betts Download Open image “I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.” — Dickey Betts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blues Call Jazz Myself Player
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I wouldn't really call myself a Jazz singer I think it's offending to real Jazz singers to call me a Jazz singer. — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone… — Pharoah Sanders Copy Share Image
I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16, bluegrass wasn't… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader,… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion. — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means. — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
The thing with Berry and Duane and the rest of us in the original Allman Brothers seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. When Duane… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break. — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,' and 'Blue Sky' are happy songs. That's the way I wrote them:… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers. — Dickey Betts 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
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
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
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
Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed. — Gary Rossington Copy Share Image
My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could… — Steve Cropper Copy Share Image
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
