Top 1200 Chicago Blues Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues

It feels great to have the chance to play with the Chicago Bulls.

I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

Chicago is a rough city. It made me raw.

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson.

I want 'Chicago Fire' to go as long as 'SVU.'

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

Joseph Zawinul and Toots Thielmans, in my opinion, are the only Europeans who can play rhythm-and-blues.

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.

Hell, Justin and I even talking about recording a blues song sometime.

Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose Won't you let me go down in my dreams?

Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites.

I actually played in Chicago with DK Metcalf's father.

My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God.

When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

I just want to shine a light on the city of Chicago.

I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.

I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.

That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

Blues, rock, and soul are part of the music I make, but there are Indian influences, too.

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play

I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

I love the city of Chicago. They are so welcoming to the shows that shoot here.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

My roots really instilled Chicago values in me.

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described at the University of Chicago and at M.I.T. A Chicago economist derived the formula and said, "Look at how few firms you need to get close to infinite elasticities and perfect competition." An M.I.T. economist derived the same formula and said, "Look at how large n has to be before you get anywhere close to an infinite elasticity and perfect competition."

The blues singers were talking about everyday life, and they pushed a button.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.