Top 1200 Chicago Blues Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on October 19, 2024.
I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.
If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible carnage going on I will send in the feds.
I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.
I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.
I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.
The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.
Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.
My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.
I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Big time blues and music city. It's always been in my bloodline.
Only in Chicago do they care more about who the mayor is than who's president.
I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.
If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.
Blues fallin' down like hail And the day keeps on worryin' me There's a hell hound on my trail.
And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.
I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.
With 'Chicago Hope,' I'm seeing if anyone will like me again.
I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.
The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.
Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.
The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone.
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
I take the subway to work. I fly coach back and forth to Chicago.
When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.
My Chicago is beautiful and diverse. It was able to give me all parts of the world all in one.
Every Thanksgiving, for the most part in my life, I've come to Deerfield in Chicago.
It felt amazing to walk out and hear the energy of the crowd here in Chicago.
My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.
It is a much bigger thing to have a world championship with Chicago than this one in Italy.
It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.
There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.
I've always been a dog owner, from the time I was a little boy in Chicago.
And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.
I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'
Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
A long time ago, you couldn't say what you mean in blues. You had to disguise it, and that's where the double entendres and humour comes from and that's where we come from.
New York's got a little rougher edge to it than Chicago.
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.
The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.
I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.
'Post 9/11 Blues' is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It's a generational thing.
Asexual, aseasonal, rectangular, slick palette of blacks, touches of pure grays and intense dark blues.
Everyone tried to be a singer other than just a player. We had four voices in The Moody Blues.
I remember seeing 'Chicago' and 'Legally Blonde' and waiting by the stage door.
I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
People are always telling me to shut up about Chicago.
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.
Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records.
I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.
My wife and I lived in Chicago for two months, and we went to a lot of great restaurants.
T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.
When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.
I woke up this mornin' Feelin' round for my shoes Know 'bout I got these, Old walkin' blues.
I don't think the people in Chicago really knew exactly who I was in the seven years I was there.
When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.
