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Blues Quotes

I do research for every single book, regardless. For 'Double Dutch,' I learned to jump and learned the scoring system. For 'November Blues,' I interviewed pregnant teens. I like to get up close and personal with the kids involved in the situations I write about.

Research Book Blues Jump Personal

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

Music Blues Nobody Kind Old Years

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

Time Style Blues Moody Delta Around

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

Life Memory My Life Long Blues Been

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

Happy Story You Feeling Blues Swing

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

Walls Foundation Blues Jazz Rock

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

Music Reflection World You Blues

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas, and he would play the blues.

Day King Blues Play Listen Radio

It's good to see young kids getting into the blues.

Good Blues Young See Kids Getting

I do love country music.

Love Music Day Country Blues Punk

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

Heart Blues Play Band Misery Did

My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.

Education Blues Chicago Grounded Lee

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

John Lee Hooker

Story Meaning Blues Line Every

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

Live You Blues Play

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

Music Blues Now Nothing Without

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.

Start Learn You Blues Jazz More

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

Life Me My Life Blues Trials Relief

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Blues Jazz Exhausted Got After

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

Women Day Men Blues Done Started

I would be on dates with guys, and the radio would be on, and if the Moody Blues song came on I couldn't concentrate on the guy; I would go straight into the music.

Music Song Blues Go Moody Radio

Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.

Slow Blues Never Nowhere Going Get

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

People Blues Jazz Race Old Always

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.

Love Happy Me Blues Done Want

It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this kind of vibrant music and when I first started playing in a blues band I just wanted to bring it to a wider public who hadn't really heard it.

Music Start White Blues Kind Why

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