Able Quote by Robert Cray Download Open image “In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.” — Robert Cray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Jazz Order Play
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
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play. — Sonny Rollins 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
Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them. — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy. — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed. — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my… — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes. — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell… — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
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I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
