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Blues Quotes
Most Famous Blues Quotes of All Time!
These Music quotes cite Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and classical and Indian influences shaping a personal take on blues and jazz.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.
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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.
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You ask any Olympian what the year after the Olympics is like - you always get the Olympic blues.
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I was always a closet blues player.
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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.
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I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
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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.
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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.
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The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.
Others describe the blues as what a sinner sounds like on the day of revival, and trace every blues musician's pain back to the Sadness and hardship of the Mississippi Delta's Nostalgia-laced history.