Blues Quote by Youssou N'Dour Download Open image “When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.” — Youssou N'Dour ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blues Left Left Blues Music Music Left Slave Slaves Slaves Left
I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and… — Letta Mbulu Copy Share Image
African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West. — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi,… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta. — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians,… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private. — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people… — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face. — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to… — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to… — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us… — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back… — John Lee Hooker 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
“Grits Glossary blues \’blüz\ n: nothing but a good man singing about hardship, sorrow, and the things he’s done wrong--but sake’s alive, they make… — Deborah Ford 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
I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything. — Orianthi 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
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues… — Robert Plant 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
When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
