Top 1200 Chicago Blues Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on October 19, 2024.
My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.
I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
There are a lot of people in Chicago that I miss. I was there one year out of high school. So I basically grew up there.
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.
I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
Even though I was a rock 'n' roll fan, hearing the raw blues was like listening to music on a much deeper kind of level.
As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.
People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me.
My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spent in Chicago at the Annoyance Theatre.
I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.
I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.
In Chicago, we have a century-old transit system that desperately needs updates to keep up with increased capacity.
My kids are really dope. I was just at home in Chicago, and my daughter Brittany was interviewing me. It was like I was on 'Oprah.'
Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.
Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.
Wal-Mart's slogan 'Save money, live better' promises a lot. So does its entrance into Chicago.
For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.
Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.
I'm obsessed with Norah Jones and Amy Winehouse, Etta James. I'm really into blues and R&B type of stuff, '90s hip-hop; that's my jam.
Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.
I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.
Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs.
The first movie I fell in love with was Tim Burton's 'Batman,' which isn't Chicago, obviously, it's Gotham.
I want it to be here in Chicago. I'm going to play my heart and soul out for this team and give it everything I've got.
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
I was a late bloomer, but I realised that people really liked it when I played blues scales and, with the piano, I had that insatiable need to prove myself.
News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)
Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.
I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.
There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.
My father and mother listened to oldies, from be-bop and swing music to - I hate to admit it, but - Barry Manilow, Fleetwood Mac and the Moody Blues.
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.
There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.
Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today.
it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.
When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.
Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.
Living in Chicago as a country boy, basically, and going to college made a very big impact on me.
We can't just rest on the fact that this is beautiful Chicago. I want to triple down on that experience and make it... life-altering.
I think you can hear the Delta blues thing in something like the intro to 'Heaven in This Hell,' which has that down-home acoustic riff.
Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.
I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
Getting to be in Chicago when the Cubs won the World Series was one of the most magical experiences I think I've ever had in a city.
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.
