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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
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I just play blues for fun.
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My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
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I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.
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Blues is a very physical music.
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I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
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One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.
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I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues.
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Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
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To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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.