Blues Quote by Steve Miller Download Open image “All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.” — Steve Miller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blues First Jazz
Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds… — Wynton Marsalis 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
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. — 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
Growing up in Dallas, my first influences on the guitar were T-Bone Walker and Les Paul. T-Bone taught me how to play lead guitar… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
With the search for the Higgs, we're involved with 5% of the visual universe, and now we have 95% of the invisible universe that's… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Dealing with Jazz at Lincoln Center and its board of directors, who are so great, and then seeing how these Rock Hall guys operate,… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Vinyl's like a really juicy steak compared to like a kind of tough steak or something. It's really good. And once you listen to… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
From the minute I became aware of Jimmie Vaughan and his playing, he was one of my very favorites. So I made it my… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz and you… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act - we're a really good musical organization, ... You're going to hear… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me. — Steve Miller 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
