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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You ask any Olympian what the year after the Olympics is like - you always get the Olympic blues.
- Closet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a closet blues player.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a late bloomer, but I realised that people really liked it when I played blues scales and, with the piano, I had that insatiable need to prove myself.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.
- Moody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be.
- Roots
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- Nov 07, 2020
My roots are in everything from doo-wop and blues to the Four Freshman and the Beach Boys and jazz and electronica. But it was put together in a deceptively simple package.
- Blues Brothers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.
- Players
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.
- Low-Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of East Coast, so I like the off-white and the navy blues and the low-key preppy kind of thing.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters and brothers doing the same beat.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
- Depicted
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- Nov 07, 2020
The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to each other is in fact part of the pleasure you take in them - rather than the differentiation in which Jerome Kern and George Gershwin indulged to great effect.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
- Nov 07, 2020
I play blues old-timey style.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The instrumental stuff is a good challenge, and it keeps my fingers athletically tuned, but I'm totally happy to bang away on some chords, sing some harmonies and play some wailing blues solos after the second chorus.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blues is the first step to get to jazz.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that's related to the blues.
- Build-Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues.
- Explosion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're great players. I'm not a Blues Traveler fan, though. I get it, but it's not for me.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was into playing American music, especially the blues.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
But my big thing was always the blues.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.
- Beat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas, and he would play the blues.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I'm sure of it.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020