- Grow Up
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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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The podcast 'A History of Jazz' began telling its story in February - 100 years after the recording of 'Livery Stable Blues' by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the start of jazz as a legitimate branch of music.
- Love
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I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
- Nowhere
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.
- Make
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I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.
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American blues can make you sad.
- Family
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.
- Treat
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Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
- Music
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I'm a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn't generally what I do. I'm a I'll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to all kinds of music myself; it can range from practically anything: Opera, Jazz, to Blues, good Pop, just about anything.
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.