"There's only two kinds of music: the blues……" — Townes Van Zandt
"There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah."
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15 Quotes by Townes Van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt has 15 quotes on this site.
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I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your…
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All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write…
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Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.
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Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from…
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Im the mold that grunge was grown in.
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I don’t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does,…
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I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly…
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There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah,
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Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke…
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Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding
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Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking…
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I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure…
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More Blues Quotes
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one of 667 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
— Count Basie
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Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
— Christina Aguilera
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I…
— Jeff Bridges
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'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.
— Luke Bryan
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I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to…
— Gary Allan
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
— Nick Cave
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I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music,…
— Nick Cave
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What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth.…
— Ray Charles
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my…
— Eric Clapton
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