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Blues Quotes

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

Blues Jump Band Everything Big Made

A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of songs that structurally are quite bluesy. Sound-wise, there's a lot of indie as well. But you can't really say I'm pop-blues, because that's insulting to blues. It just can't exist.

Marriage Music Growing Up You Blues

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.

Jonathan Tropper

Evil Blues First Piano Ghost Novel

What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap.

Music Day I Can Blues Go Changes

When I'd hear something that sounded like I could follow it - most of those big band jazz tunes are blues anyway - I would hum it and play with the fiddle while I was humming.

Blues Play Jazz Band Follow Big

As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.

Benjamin Booker

Music Vision Me Writing Blues Want

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

People Think Blues Will Need Always

Hearing the blues changed my life.

Life My Life Blues Hearing Changed

Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.

Dimebag Darrell

Together Blues Play Just Scale Both

I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.

Music Myself Blues Modern African

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Shoes Man Feet Blues Street Because

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

You Blues Right Pains Sing Grab

The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over.

Christine McVie

Beautiful Mind Better Blues Chicken

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

Mahalia Jackson

Deep Help Blues Yelling Anybody Pit

The first thing I heard was spiritual music, which was imbedded. The second thing I heard was swing. And shortly, along with that, I began to hear the blues. And then I began to hear Latin music. Each one left its mark.

Music Spiritual Blues Swing First

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

Live Easy Blues Jazz Will Big

I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

Revolution Look Blues Over Singer

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

Gary Clark, Jr.

Growing Up Night Blues Go Growing

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

Career Blues Connect Something Been

I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.

Love Soul Queen Blues Rock Singer

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

Ideas World Blues Everything Stance

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

People You Blues Say Want Well

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

Music Blues Vitamins Pop Pop Music

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.

Good City Think Back Blues Places

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