- 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.
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- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.
- Roots
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not committed to putting myself up for a blues guitarist, even though I love playing the blues.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.
- Nov 07, 2020
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've only dyed my hair blond once, after 'Varsity 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.