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Blues Quotes

If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues.

Start Blues Will Try Theme Stem

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

Justin Townes Earle

Music Book Country Blues Want Get

I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed by close-harmony groups. Actually, I'm fascinated particularly by brother duos, how they blend together. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, The McQuarrys. There's something inherently magical about harmony.

Together Brother Me Growing Up Blues

I just play blues for fun.

Fun Blues Play Just

That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.

Queen Control Song Loved Blues Jazz

'Hairdresser Blues' was written when I was deep in a ten-year depression that I escaped shortly after recording that album. I don't like that album.

Depression Deep Blues Recording Like

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

John Lee Hooker

Money Deep You I Can Blues Know

I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Day Friends Enjoy You Sunday Blues

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

Wolf You Blues Understand Emotional

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

People Singing Blues Emotional Had

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

Balance Blues Too Much Things Bother

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

Listening Grow Blues Grow Up Up

I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.

Love Music Blues Lot I Love

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

Dance Blues Jazz Rock Pop Even

I'm sort of East Coast, so I like the off-white and the navy blues and the low-key preppy kind of thing.

Stephanie Courtney

Blues Kind Navy Low-Key East Coast

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.

Blues Listen Anything Bluegrass

You ask any Olympian what the year after the Olympics is like - you always get the Olympic blues.

Year You Blues Ask Always Get

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

Man Medicine Mission Blues Poet He

The crew on 'Varsity Blues' was phenomenal.

Blues Crew Phenomenal

Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.

Growing Up Blues Growing Jazz Up

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

Life Blues Play Know Understand

I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.

Vivian Campbell

Think Better Getting Better Blues

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.

American Blues Rhythm Inspired Were

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

Music American Country Blues Up

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