Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
George Thorogood
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I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I thought I was going to be a major leaguer. But I was the only one who seemed to think so.
Robert Preston
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
Eric Clapton
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I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.
Maurice Gibb
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Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called 'Nights in White Satin,' which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people.
David Hepworth
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Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
Amy Winehouse
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I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.
Charlie Rich
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Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.
Stephen Stills
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Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.
Butch Trucks
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All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.
Robert Cray
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Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.
Big Bill Broonzy
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I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.
Robin Trower
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I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.
Alex Chilton
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But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
Ruth Brown
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The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.
William Christopher Handy
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The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.
Mick Taylor
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As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues.
Paul Dini
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I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
Loudon Wainwright III
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Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.
Jake Shimabukuro
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Janis Joplin
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I did a lot of 'NYPD Blues' and 'Law & Orders' and a couple of other ones that were shot in New York earlier in my career.
Frank Vincent
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I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek.
Johnny Flynn
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I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.
Al Jourgensen
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The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
Johnny Winter
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