Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.
Taj Mahal
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I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.
Diane Sawyer
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
Sam Shepard
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Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse.
Donovan
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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
Otis Rush
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I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.
Christine McVie
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
Ma Rainey
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I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.
Chuck Close
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I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer. Many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical. My grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood.
India Arie
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There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.
Boots Riley
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Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.
Gary Rossington
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Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
Brownie McGhee
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I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
Dane Cook
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The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found them when I was ten; I didn't know what it was. But I found Lightnin' Hopkins.
Ato Essandoh
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I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.
Edgar Winter
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I like to listen the blues and some classical.
Peter Tork
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
B. B. King
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I'm into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school... whatever... pop. If it's really good, I like it. I don't have to be told what to listen to. If I like it and it's good, I'll listen to it.
Toby Keith
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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
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I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva.
Nina Simone
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I kind of got really, really into 'Hill Street Blues' when it came out. I used to leave a class early just to make sure I could watch the episode of 'Hill Street Blues' that day.
Mark Pellegrino
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If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.
Jimmy Rushing
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All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'
Lennie James
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Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know?
Joe Morton
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