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Blues Quotes

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.

Music Struggle Black Loved Blues

I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.

Experience Me Blues Audience See

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

Blues Never Movement Punk Guy Brown

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Rock And Roll Blues Rock Rhythm Up

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

Music Soul Loved Blues Always Pop

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

Blues Call Being Been Four Primary

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

Music Great American Blues Jazz Far

Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

Me World You Blues Play Want

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.

Work Myself People Blues Play Never

I played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It's like everything is based around the blues, no matter what the groove is.

Edge Blues Rock Matter Band Punk

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

Woman Me Guitar Blues Never Him

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

Time Art Blues New Jazz New Orleans

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

Blues Up Like Lot Grew

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

Name Blues New New Orleans Different

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

People Doors Blues Play Left Before

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

Today Singing Blues Nothing See

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

Time Death Short Blues Jazz Rock

When you're 12 and, you know, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're playing blues, you get a lot of press.

Better You White Blues Know Playing

I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish greys and drizzle. I love the cities of the Spanish interior.

Love Winter Blues Go Sunlight Irish

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

Love Good Blues Jazz Little Reggae

I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

Love Blues Over Brothers Nina Simone

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

Love Music Country Blues Jazz Swing

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

Music Song Blues Difficult Borrowing

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

Believe Blues I Believe I Believe In

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