Top 1200 Chicago Blues Quotes & Sayings - Page 14
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Last updated on October 19, 2024.
I'd like to stay in Chicago, but if they don't want me, somebody will.
The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.
Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.
One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.
Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart.
Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.
I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.
I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.
I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
I think, yeah, Chicago is the best basketball city in America.
Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago.
Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
Gorgeous day here in Chicago. Sure is better than Canada.
After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.
I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt.
You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.
I live in Chicago but own some property up in Wisconsin.
When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.
Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.
I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.
You don't need the frills and thrills to make something amazing. I think that's what inspires me with the blues.
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.
I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.
When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.
'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.
I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.
When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.
Certain parts are bad in every city, but Chicago is beautiful.
I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.
I really want to concentrate of the blues again and do it properly, which is something I feel I didn't do before.
The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen.
My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man.
I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.
Living in Chicago, you have got to not be afraid about failing at something.
The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.
In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.
Chicago's where I started my career. I've had a lot of success playing here.
The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas.
I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.
Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude.
I'm from Chicago and that's where I created all of my most prized possesions, which are my songs.
I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.
