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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue... B. B. KING
Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues. JON BON JOVI
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you... B. B. KING I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.
BOB LIVINGSTON To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blu...
MICK FLEETWOOD Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't ha...
BIG BILL BROONZY
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain... DAVID EDWARDS
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock an... KEITH RICHARDS
You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too mu... DAVID EDWARDS
Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don'... ETTA JAMES A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA
Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,'... BILLY GIBBONS
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues. JIMI HENDRIX So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy'...
JAMES YOUNG The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music,...
TOMMY RAMONE I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. B. B. KING Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don...
AL JOURGENSEN The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no ...
ALBERTA HUNTER A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I&#...
PAUL BUTTERFIELD 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 played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It... SCOTT WEILAND
I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. JOHN MAYER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH
The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has ... TOM WAITS The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder...
RONNIE WOOD I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. Th...
TAJ MAHAL
I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues. BILLY COLLINS
Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing. DAVID GILMOUR
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues'... TIM CAHILL
Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere. DAVID EDWARDS I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.
BENJAMIN BOOKER
I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ... B. B. KING Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blu...
BUDDY GUY It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON 'Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so...
STEVE BURNS
The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music g... GARY CLARK, JR.
Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs. DIMEBAG DARRELL
Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here... B. B. KING Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes o...
KOKO TAYLOR I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
JOHNNY RAMONE I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
EDDIE MONEY
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going. B. B. KING Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
OTIS RUSH
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Cha... ERIC CLAPTON I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.
BENJAMIN BOOKER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
BARBARA LYNN Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Coo...
L.A. REID
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer. B. B. KING
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. PAUL THEROUX
There have been times where I've said, 'Jesus, I don't believe in you anymore, get out o... MIKE YACONELLI Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They'...
EDIE FALCO About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc... B. B. KING The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this ...
JOHN LEE HOOKER The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, m...
JOOLS HOLLAND I'm an old soul. The blues, especially older blues, is the human element that kind of gives the ...
BRIA SKONBERG
If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ... B. B. KING While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled ...
BILL DEDMAN
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory. MUDDY WATERS
Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me si... ETTA JAMES
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute eleganc... WYNTON MARSALIS
I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva. NINA SIMONE Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at n...
JOHN LEE HOOKER
I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH We were always hearing on the street, 'Where can we hear some live blues music?' No place in town wa...
BILL LUCKETT I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what peo... DAVID EDWARDS
I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to ... EDWARD SNOWDEN Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I ...
EARL KING
When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was suppose... PETE TOWNSHEND
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on. MAHALIA JACKSON
I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the... B. B. KING
The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people... B. B. KING Everything has its roots in blues. I don?t care what kind of music it is.
ERIC ESSEX
The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make ... DAVID EDWARDS
I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it u... CHRIS CORNELL
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a... DAVID EDWARDS Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.
TAJ MAHAL I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magi...
DAN COLEN
It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition ... DAVID SANBORN I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That...
TAMARA TAYLOR
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just... ETTA JAMES I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one...
ADRIAN LYNE I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of...
BROOKE ELLIOTT People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don'...
PENELOPE WILTON I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, ...
PARKER YOUNG
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
OTIS RUSH I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditi...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
I've been up in the Arctic Circle where they have hockey rinks that don't have any heating. ... JOHN RALSTON SAUL
I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a l... DAVID EDWARDS I've always kept writing. There's never been a moment where I went through a spell where I j...
CASSADEE POPE My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this ente...
JAY RYAN
