Top 1200 Chicago Blues Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music
You bat your baby blues at tall, dark, and gruesome, and next thing you know, he's trailing you like a lost puppy.
In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make a blues album.'
The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.
At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.
I would encourage the people out in Chicago and all of us to continue to press for, that type of prosecutorial accountability.
In Chicago, they wanted Michael to do his thing and me to be just rebound. I'm more than a rebounder.
In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.
If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there. After that, it's debatable.
Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.
I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.
You have to diet before you even go to shoot in Chicago because we just eat the entire time.
Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.
Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.
To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'
Going to places like Chicago and New York as the champion is kind of what was really special for me.
You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a speci?c moment is what drives it.
I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.
I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
My favorite band - and Bobby Cannavale and Terry Winter have already made fun of me for this - is Chicago.
In the sixties when Paul was with the Beatles and I was with the Moody Blues, we shared the same bill and tried to blow each other off the stage.
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.
The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.
Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.
I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I thought I was going to be a major leaguer. But I was the only one who seemed to think so.
I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.
I go by the name of Polo G and I'm from the near North Side of Chicago, the 1300 block of Hudson Avenue.
I have a dialogue coach who helps me out with some of the more tricky Chicago vowel sounds.
Music is so important. Because in Chicago it's up to us to tell the stories nobody else will.
Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.
The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.
'Chicago' kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.
Knowing the opportunity to win a championship here in Chicago, right now, that's the main motivation for me.
Being from Chicago, you kind of are shielded in a way from the other stuff that goes on in music and the industry.
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.
For over 20 years, I have been saying that Chicago is by far one of the greatest food cities in the world.
I could fall asleep at 10:30 watching 'Hill Street Blues.' I might wake up at 1 A.M. and have a riff in my head.
I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.
I did a lot of 'NYPD Blues' and 'Law & Orders' and a couple of other ones that were shot in New York earlier in my career.
Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone to the blues.
I enjoy my job. And I love the city of Chicago, and this organization - it gave me the start to my whole career.
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.
My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.
I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
