Top 1200 Chicago Blues Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on October 19, 2024.
Chicago is a world-class city filled with amazing people with big ideas.
I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.
It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.
I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
'Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and song and dance.
One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
Access Living is a powerful voice for people in the Chicago area who live with disabilities.
You could do all the internships in the world but if you're not very bright, you might not get into the University of Chicago.
I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.
I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy.
I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.
I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.
Chicago was a good place for me. Maybe New York will be better.
Chicago is a world-class culinary center. We need to guard that reputation and status.
David Cromer, from Chicago, I think is the most gifted young director in America.
When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.
I went to a Bulls game when it was still in Chicago Stadium before they built the United Center.
You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with them. And that's the sound I grew with.
Cities like Chicago and Philadelphia make the NFL what it is. They give the league its soul.
I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.
You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.
I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
I played for Marinelli I think my last four, five years in Chicago. He's awesome.
I'll always be a Chicago Bear no matter where I end up or where I retire, whatever happens.
As you grow older, you learn to appreciate all the artistry. I'm actually on my way back to the blues, you know, that my mothers and fathers liked.
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago.
ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
I left before I had the opportunity to pursue work more widely in Chicago.
Coming from Chicago, Lollapalooza is the one weekend of the summer when actual Chicagoans are kept out.
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.
Chicago is one of my favorite cities because it has great sand, weather and an enthusiastic crowd.
I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.
I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.
I don't think anybody feels safe in Chicago. Bullets ain't got no name on them.
An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.
Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had.
I grew up listening to blues and rock n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.
I love the language of, you know, the old black country man with a blues guitar and... boots and the quick banter.
But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel
I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.
I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.
It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
I was 10 years old, and I went to the Marigold Arena in Chicago, and I was hooked, just like that.
We've got to win a championship and bring a World Series trophy back to Chicago.
If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there.
I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago.
I've known Chicago for 50 years; we used to play shows at the Avalon Ballroom.
I know Los Angeles has it better than Chicago when it comes to produce year round!
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.
Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.
Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
Afghanistan is not like what's happening in Chicago. People are being shot left and right.
