A Quote by Tim Kasher

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much

Tim Kasher

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Blues Know Much Understand

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Tim Kasher
American - Musician
Born: August 19, 1974

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

John Lee Hooker

There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness of life.

Corey Harris

I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there's something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know?

Sinead O'Connor

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

Derek Bailey

The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling and understanding. The blues can be about anything pertaining to the facts of life. The blues call on God as much as a spiritual song do.

Willie Dixon

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

David Johansen

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

Ry Cooder

In the same way I wanted to learn how to play poker, I've always kind of been into the blues. It just seems like a cool thing, but I didn't know much about it. So I thought, 'Hey, let's really learn about the blues.'

Ryan Fleck

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

Van Morrison

I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

Mose Allison

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

Ike Turner

The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.

Johnny Winter

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

Antonio Porchia

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

Barry Gibb

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.