Top 1200 Singing The Blues Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.'

I like blue a lot, and greens. Earthy blues and greens.

Everybody's looking for some kind of authenticity in music. Or some kind of truism, you know, "This is true!" And the thing about gospel music is, these people are singing about their faith. So it always comes across with, as authentic, you know? Gospel choirs put across this amazing sound but they're singing from the heart because they truly believe it. And I kind of have that faith, but I just have that faith in music.

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've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

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 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.

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 love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

God made Blues right after he made woman.

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'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.

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.'

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.

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.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

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.

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.

Depending on how I'm feeling that day or the music I'm listening to, I will pick appropriate lighting to help create the atmosphere for me. I use a lot of blues and purples.

I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

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.

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.

All my stuff is pretty seamless - like now, while I'm touring [Yesterday I Sang The Blues], today I'm going to go in the studio, I'm writing my next one. For me it's continual.

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die.

I know that Filipinos will enjoy 'Gangnam Blues' because it has a universal message that will resonate with everyone.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

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.

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

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!

When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and 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

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.

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.

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.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the connections human beings make, that in spite of everything, we will always make. To quote from the book, 'What he saw in the people was what the old anthropologists called communitas. It wasn't that the people sang and moved. It was their singing and moving together' Singing and moving together, Wood has found a way to express this profound and beautiful idea through fiction.

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.

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.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.

If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

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.

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.