Top 1200 Chicago Blues Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on October 19, 2024.
My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.
I remember Chicago well. That's where I started in radio in 1930 and it snowed a lot that year, too.
When you're 12 and, you know, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're playing blues, you get a lot of press.
I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from.
The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.
An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.
Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.
Atlanta is definitely where it's at. I still go back to Chicago a lot though, I got family there.
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.
Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.
My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams.
I'm playing a cop in Chicago. So I have to look beefier - like a guy who eats steak and potatoes.
I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.
The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership.
Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.
I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.
My adult life, I grew up in Chicago. When I go back there, I always have fond memories.
I listen to lots of blues records and some of them are funny. BB King's 'How Blue Can You Get' is hilarious.
So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.
I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that.
There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.
I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.
When I did my rock band, I pined for a more soulful sound. I wanted music that was very melodic and blues-based.
Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.
I haven't touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago's slaughterhouses when I was 12.
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.
Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market.
He [Barak Obama]'s a guy from Chicago. He doesn't know what the hell to do. He's got a big pipe with a hole in it.
The hope is that in rediscovering 'Chicago,' audiences will rediscover what theater was. It was sophisticated, complicated, adult.
It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.
I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.
My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
I know what it was like to grow up in Chicago and see the same problems every day.
I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.
Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.
There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement.
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.
Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.
I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.
I want to be on that team that wins the world championship here in Chicago and sees the city go crazy.
It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself
Illinois and Chicago have shown they can compete on the world stage, and we will continue to answer the challenge.
No shade to the other artists in Chicago... but if you got confidence in yourself and you know you're Number One, say it.
I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.
I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.
What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.
When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.
Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
Chicago's one of the most segregated cities in America. Everybody lives in their own silos and vacuums.
