"But I did that, and I created another……" — Luther Allison
"But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about."
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30 Quotes by Luther Allison
Luther Allison has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.
- The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock…
- Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.
- I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.
- But my big thing was always the blues.
- Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would…
- I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.
- I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks…
- I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.
- In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.
- In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.
- Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.