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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.
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Doo-wop was full of blues for me.
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I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
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I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.
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Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.
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Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.
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Blues players are around for 50 years, and that's just fine.
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My grandfather is a blues musician.
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I began writing with Mike Pinder and eventually we went on to form a new band called The M&B, which later became The Moody Blues, what I would call a progressive blues band.
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The Moody Blues were a blues band, so when we got discovered, we were taken to London. That's where we started to make it. That's where the record labels were. That's where the action was.
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The Moody Blues was very big in France, because they liked that we were basically playing blues.
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I was part of that whole early Moody Blues transitioning from a sort of R&B-blues band to being more progressive.
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I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.
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Paul and I were friends, the Moody Blues toured with the Beatles on the second British tour. That developed into me working with Paul, whom I always admired.
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Everyone tried to be a singer other than just a player. We had four voices in The Moody Blues.
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.