Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?
Joe Bonamassa
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I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.
Greg Ginn
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Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
John Mayer
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One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.
Eric Burdon
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The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other.
Robert Palmer
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What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.
Ellen Willis
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I cross-dressed as the judge in 'Hill Street Blues,' you know.
Jeffrey Tambor
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The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?
David Edwards
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My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.
Alvin Lee
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Skip James, for me, is the meaning of the blues.
Blick Bassy
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The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.
Tommy Ramone
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The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.
Bill Medley
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I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
Ritchie Blackmore
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In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.
Alexis Korner
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Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.
Ronnie Wood
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Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.
Alberta Hunter
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The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
Michael Tippett
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Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from.
Paul Rodgers
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New Orleans is just so full of culture in the music content - blues, folk. I was introduced to a lot of things. My mother didn't keep me away from other music. She only kept me away from rap. The closest I got to rap was D'Angelo.
Luke James
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I like blue a lot, and greens. Earthy blues and greens.
Lee DeWyze
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Songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day' and 'Dress Blues,' those were good songs, but the output wasn't as consistent in those days.
Jason Isbell
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What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.
Harry Dean Stanton
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The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.
Jon Landau
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I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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