- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Jazz
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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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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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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.
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.