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Blues Quotes

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

Book Blues Play Him Behind Joe

I was singing the blues when I was six. Kind of sad, eh?

Harry Dean Stanton

Sad Singing Blues Kind Six Eh

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

Time Blues Yesterday Away Your

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

Love Man Blues Said First Honest

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

Johnny Van Zant

Loving Blues Nothing Old Up Artists

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

Music American Diet Blues Kind Up

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.

Better Blues Rock Roll Just Like

As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.

Music Parents Me Blues Aware Made

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

Myself Blues Jazz Call Player

I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

Eyes Happy Me Blues Will Always

I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music.

Music Listening World Blues Jazz

I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.

Money Identity Voice Create Blues

I haven't lost my blues roots.

Christine McVie

Roots Blues Lost

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

Listening Wolf Blues Up Motown Lots

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.

Home Day Bad Bad Boy Blues Play

I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson.

Love Blues Boy Old Players Like

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

Powerful Blues Praise Being Well

When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

Education Home Time Blues Young

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Bruce Springsteen

Music You Blues Darkest Greatest

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

Rest Year Blues Go Band Out

I grew up listening to blues and rock n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

Music Listening World Blues Rock Up

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

Music Believe American Blues Jazz

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.

Fun Night Blues Play Same Set

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

Me Blues Blood Same Bleeding

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