Top 1200 Delta Blues Quotes & Sayings - Page 14
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I know that Filipinos will enjoy 'Gangnam Blues' because it has a universal message that will resonate with everyone.
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.
God made Blues right after he made woman.
I never wore a pink T-shirt before. Blue is my favourite colour and gives me good energy. I like doing my blues with different colours.
Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved.
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.
Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
The social realism of ' Establishment Blues' or 'Like Janis,' are what I chose to use to express what was happening in the U.S. and what was happening to me personally.
The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
I like blue a lot, and greens. Earthy blues and greens.
I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.
There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse.
I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.
When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues
I'm a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn't generally what I do. I'm a I'll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.
When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Biloxi Blues.'
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.
It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.
I think 'Adiye/Yadike' is unique and fresh and something new for Indian films. It brings together the blues and gospel feel with Tamil folk lyrics.
I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.
I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.
When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die.
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.
I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records
R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid and what we do.
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.
When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.
Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.
I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew who knew about that stuff.
Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.
I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
I've always seen music as colours, with basses maybe translating to dark blues, and trebles as yellows and ochres and a general sense of lights coming through.
Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.
