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Blues Quotes

I listen to all kinds of music myself; it can range from practically anything: Opera, Jazz, to Blues, good Pop, just about anything.

Good Music Myself Blues Jazz Listen

I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that.

Learning Home Brother Remember Blues

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Business Music Blues Difficult Made

The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.

Gary Clark, Jr.

Music Cool Foundation Blues Always

I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner... And at the other end of the spectrum, I had Eric Clapton in a rock and blues sense, jazz guys such as Tal Farlow and Les Paul... Then Chet Atkins-type stuff.

End Blues Jazz Rock Sense Stuff

Blues purists may hate what I do sometimes because it's a little dirtier.

Fantastic Negrito

Hate Blues Sometimes Little May

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

Sun People Blues Know Out Records

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

Dan Castellaneta

Happy You Blues Play Go Ahead

I play blues old-timey style.

Pinetop Perkins

Style Blues Play

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

Daughter Man People Blues Understand

When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing, but I couldn't play it. I couldn't get it out. I knew what I had to play; it was in my head. I could hear the notes in my head, but I couldn't get them out on the guitar.

Guitar Blues Play First Out Head

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

Women Blues Singer Twice Been Would

Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

Born Blues First Pony Layers Who

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

Music American Blues Playing

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

I Can Blues Something Sing Created

A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself.

Good Yourself Feel You Blues Sushi

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

Alone Blues Done Digital Quick Made

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

Music Blues British Favorite Still

When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think the rest of us were.

Rest Think Blues Band Rhythm Moody

I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.

Together Singing House Wonder Blues

When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.

Great People Blues Play Done Jazz

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

Library Blues Out Playing Started

It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.

Man Eye Rich Blues Through Camel

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

John Lee Hooker

Me Blues Play Will Way Something

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