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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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My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams.
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It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.
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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.
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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.
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Blues is the first step to get to jazz.
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It's so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that's related to the blues.
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As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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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.
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.