Top 1200 Delta Blues Quotes & Sayings - Page 13
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.
I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know?
It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.
Zeppelin were a blues band but [also] so much more, [as were] The Stones.
If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rhythm-and-blues side of things, seein' Otis Redding live was it, you know?
Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be.
My dad was my first influence. He played classical guitar and my uncle Ron played the blues.
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.
I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.
Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.
The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!
I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.
I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer
I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.
My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one.
My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.
I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.
Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.
If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.
I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.
I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
I'm using Fender Twin Reverbs and Fender Blues Devilles on stage.
So the blues player, he ain't worried and bothered, but he's got something for the worried people.
Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.
If I am going to shine in any arena, it is going to be blues and soul.
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals.
My roots are in everything from doo-wop and blues to the Four Freshman and the Beach Boys and jazz and electronica. But it was put together in a deceptively simple package.
I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish greys and drizzle. I love the cities of the Spanish interior.
Ive always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.
But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.
I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
I will argue with anyone in New York: we have the best pizza in Chicago and the best blues.
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.
It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.
I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.
I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.
Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.
I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.
It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees set on the same night.