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Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here... B. B. KING But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
RUTH BROWN A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA Her voice had a thin thread of sadness running through it that made the song important, that made it...
ANN PETRY
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you... B. B. KING
The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music g... GARY CLARK, JR.
Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing. DAVID GILMOUR The blues for me ? you just feel it. It's one of the easiest forms to play, but very few people can ...
RAFAEL MENDEZ I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a blu...
GREG GINN I'm an old soul. The blues, especially older blues, is the human element that kind of gives the ...
BRIA SKONBERG Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
OTIS RUSH
You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too mu... DAVID EDWARDS All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way, ... The Future of Blues.
LARRY CORYELL
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a... DAVID EDWARDS The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
JOHN LEE HOOKER
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain... DAVID EDWARDS To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blu...
MICK FLEETWOOD We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
RUTH BROWN
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. B. B. KING
I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd d... CHRISTINE MCVIE I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
DEREK BAILEY
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. MAHALIA JACKSON
A Bluesman hates to be told what to do. Authority rankles him, inspires his rebellion, and plays to ... CHRISTOPHER MOORE I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played...
ALEXIS KORNER The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder...
RONNIE WOOD Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
OTIS RUSH It's real blues because there is kind of a sadness in it - the fact that those days are gone.
LUTHER DICKINSON
I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. ERIC CLAPTON
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. B. B. KING Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.
LUTHER ALLISON And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.
DAVID MUTTI CLARK
The starting point of all great jazz has got to be format, a language that you can work within that,... JAMES MCBRIDE All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
MOSE ALLISON It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I&...
NEIL YOUNG I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.
BENJAMIN BOOKER
I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,' DAN AYKROYD
I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, o... IKE TURNER
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous ... ERIC CLAPTON
Sometimes English football takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in Europe, but of cour... LUIS SUAREZ
Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively. GILLIAN FLYNN I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of ...
ALEX CHILTON
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what peo... DAVID EDWARDS The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues o...
TAJ MAHAL
The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make ... DAVID EDWARDS All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
MOSE ALLISON I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot,...
VIVIAN CAMPBELL
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute eleganc... WYNTON MARSALIS
The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people... B. B. KING
When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think abo... IKE TURNER Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes o...
KOKO TAYLOR This could be the best blues festival of the year!!!
ART TIPALDI White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
MA RAINEY I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a...
ALEX CHILTON
I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues. DAVID EDWARDS The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.
JIMMY RUSHING Blues is the roots, and everything else is the fruits. Just like you can't make soup without water, ...
BRAD WHEELER You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the sa...
KEN GRIMWOOD Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
RAY DAVIES
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still creat... PARK CHAN-WOOK
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. BILLY GIBBONS I am not emo, but a Blues man. That allows me to both sing my sorrow and still be awesomely badass.
JAIRO FERNáNDEZ A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I&#...
PAUL BUTTERFIELD
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues'... TIM CAHILL
You can be all that you want to be.Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA For the blues singer, the world is his text... like any artist, the blues singer has the task of bri...
LARRY NEAL A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
OTIS RUSH
All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope ALEXANDRE DUMAS Pledge of Allegiance Blues
MICHAEL NEWDOW Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps....
AL JARREAU I stumbled on this little scene. And little by little, that scene took over my life, ... You could m...
JOAN OSBORNE The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.
WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY Nowadays in the black community, you'll find older people interested in the blues simply because it'...
ELIJAH WALD
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES
As a devoted musician and student of the blues, I wanted to document the important contribution each... STEVEN SEAGAL
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues. JIMI HENDRIX The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad
LEON REDBONE Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues...
ALBERTA HUNTER
But you're bound to loseIf you let the blues get you scared to feel JONI MITCHELL What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African mus...
TAJ MAHAL
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. DAVID EDWARDS But my big thing was always the blues.
LUTHER ALLISON While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled ...
BILL DEDMAN The allure of the kind of blues that this town is known for is still here. If the crowd at one of th...
JEFF MARLOW I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better...
CHARLIE RICH The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.
BESSIE SMITH
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrop... CORNEL WEST That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT
Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, ... AUGUST WILSON
And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early ... BUDDY RICH What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA
Wherever you are, be all there. CRAIG GROESCHEL
When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on. MAHALIA JACKSON
Oh, the blues ain't nothing but a good woman feeling bad. GEORGIA WHITE I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues...
RICK DERRINGER
You might say that the universe plays the blues. DAVID BYRNE
I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to ... JOHN OATES I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy busine...
COUNT BASIE I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy busines...
COUNT BASIE Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
PETER TORK B.B. has a very specific kind of style, very lyrical. He doesn't play a lot of notes. In a slow blue...
ANTHONY DECURTIS
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the o... 
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the ... 