Top 1200 Delta Blues Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Blues is a very physical music.

If you can play the blues, you can do anything.

The blues is life itself.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

I'm interested in Qawwali and the blues.

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.

Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

I haven't lost my blues roots.

I used to be a great blues singer.

Wild women don't get the blues.

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much

If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the human race, this is the only path that can achieve that-so the truth is the sooner you support and adopt this path of transformation through understanding the better. The choice is self-destruction or self-discovery.

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.

My grandfather is a blues musician.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

My writing ability all stems from the blues.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

All music is the blues. All of it.

There are many influences in my music, not only blues. R&B, Motown, gospel, old timey, jazz, even classical are all part of what I do. I started with classical, then country, then blues, and after that I started listening heavily to Motown and gospel. My earliest efforts as a songwriter were soul. Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Wilson Pickett, Gladys Knight, James Brown, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye and Fontella Bass are just a few of the names that come to mind as the God's of soul and Motown.

The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s answering high beams to the northeast. This 4,258 mile braid of human life, first navigated end-to-end in 2004, is visible in a single glance from space.

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.

I just play blues for fun.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.

The blues is a low down achin' chill.

No matter what you got, the blues is there

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

This be an empty world without the blues.

All blues singers are great liars.

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

[The blues] is the antidote for sadness and depression.

I was always a closet blues player.

If you only get one song, it has to be Bullfrog Blues

The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

These is old blues / and I sing em like any woman do. / These the old blues / and I sing em, sing em, sing em. Just like any woman do. / My life ain't done yet. / Naw. My song ain't through.

Comedy is a funny thing, and it's really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title. You would never go to a club just to see "Live music," you would go to a jazz club to see jazz, a blues club to see blues, etc. But when you go to see "standup comedy," if you don't know the performers material, you really don't have any idea what you're gonna get.

I think I have become a very strong person. If you’re able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you’re able to tackle anything around the world because you’re able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I’m concerned.

I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

I was into Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, the blues.

Blues are the songs of despair.

You're a master on blues piano. The real deal.

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

American blues can make you sad.

But my big thing was always the blues.

I need you like the blues needs the pain.

A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.

Blues was made for the recessed.

The blues has been in my life since I was little.

I was just fascinated by the blues.

The blues have hope wrapped inside them.