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I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby...
HOZIER The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues o...
TAJ MAHAL We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
RUTH BROWN Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestr...
NOBUO UEMATSU The folk thing was about civil rights... ... Folk music is the music of the working class, the music...
OTIS TAYLOR The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, m...
JOOLS HOLLAND![]()
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
MARK KNOPFLER My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues
MARK KNOPFLER There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o...
RUTH BROWN We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up...
MICK RALPHS![]()
In addition to celebrating great blues music, we always wanted to make sure that proceeds from this ...
MARTIN SCORSESE![]()
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo...
IAN ANDERSON I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues...
RICK DERRINGER![]()
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.
BILL MEDLEY But my big thing was always the blues.
LUTHER ALLISON Music is a hit. People love coming and hearing live music.
CAROL WILSON My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro...
HOZIER I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA After my parents died, people were always asking me, 'Where are the dancers? I had no idea they danc...
JOAN BLEDSOE![]()
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in th...
BARRY SANDERS![]()
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute eleganc...
WYNTON MARSALIS![]()
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...
JACK WHITE Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any ...
ALAN JACKSON I'm an old soul. The blues, especially older blues, is the human element that kind of gives the ...
BRIA SKONBERG I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played...
ALEXIS KORNER I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ...
JACKIE DESHANNON Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Coo...
L.A. REID That was a point where I dug a little bit back to some of the blues stuff. I worked with some fantas...
LEE ROCKER![]()
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different c...
JIMMY PAGE Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. ...
BUDDY GUY To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blu...
MICK FLEETWOOD The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent product...
GEORGIE FAME A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing u...
KATHLEEN BATTLE Nowadays in the black community, you'll find older people interested in the blues simply because it'...
ELIJAH WALD After disco, there really was a change. Generally, there were no more straight-up-Southern blues-roo...
ELIJAH WALD It was like Frank Sinatra. He was so popular because he was a storyteller, and it was the same thing...
MARCUS BELGRAVE I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it&#...
MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Missi...
ROBERT PLANT![]()
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrop...
CORNEL WEST She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about so...
ANN-MARIE MACDONALD![]()
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the...
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN![]()
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha...
MARY J. BLIGE So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy'...
JAMES YOUNG My favorite Elvis era has always been his early Sun Records stuff. It was raw, just Elvis singing wh...
DRAKE MILLIGAN With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs...
BRIAN SETZER The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there w...
BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pr...
CHARLIE WILSON Same thing with 'Long Long Way to Go' . We like to think we can tell a good song from a so-so song w...
JOE ELLIOTT![]()
The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywh...
BONNIE RAITT The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder...
RONNIE WOOD It was at the original WAMO studios in Homestead, ... Porky taped us doing 'Tequila' and 'Heavy Suga...
BOB LEONE![]()
From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone ...
JIMMY PAGE![]()
The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music g...
GARY CLARK, JR. Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
PETER TORK![]()
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just...
ETTA JAMES Blues is the roots, and everything else is the fruits. Just like you can't make soup without water, ...
BRAD WHEELER Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blu...
BUDDY GUY Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
OTIS RUSH![]()
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART 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 I listen to all types of music. I have been in Memphis recently, so I've been listening to some blue...
BENICIO DEL TORO![]()
I've got a combination of the blues mixed with hip-hop-all in one sound. I'm going to make a real bi...
IKE TURNER![]()
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's...
PETER GABRIEL![]()
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
BARRY GIBB I have to figure out a way to show how raunchy blues music can be a religious experience.
CRAIG BREWER What they did the third quarter was to not miss a shot. Everybody was on. No matter what defense we ...
RON GINAPP I was looking for a place to live and so we decided to be roommates.
ANGELA BARRAZA The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musician...
ALBERTA HUNTER![]()
Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this inst...
AURORA T.J. was crazy for the blues. We were in a band together back in the eighth grade, and T.J. would li...
JOE ELY![]()
We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act -- we're a really good musical organi...
STEVE MILLER Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were ...
ARCHIE SHEPP![]()
Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing a...
FRED ROGERS That's folk music, swing, country blues, old time country, jazz. It's the roots of American music.
DOMINIC SUCHYTA I'm looking forward to it because I haven't played in town too much this year, ... We've always had ...
JAMES PETERSON It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca...
LIONEL RICHIE We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard, ... Everything was...
JOEY RAMONE![]()
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.
DAVID EDWARDS When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't reall...
WAYNE COYNE I want him to learn to appreciate music. This was a last minute thing we decided to do just for the ...
LAUREN VANCE![]()
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed th...
TIM CAHILL We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all ...
CHRIS STAPLETON The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART![]()
He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART![]()
Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded '...
CARLA BLEY![]()
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characte...
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON![]()
Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in te...
CHRIS CORNELL![]()
A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.
SHARON WEIL![]()
When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was suppose...
PETE TOWNSHEND I stumbled on this little scene. And little by little, that scene took over my life, ... You could m...
JOAN OSBORNE![]()
In the bill that was introduced in the Senate, in the bill that I introduced along with some members...
PAT ROBERTS
HOZIER The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues o...
TAJ MAHAL We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
RUTH BROWN Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestr...
NOBUO UEMATSU The folk thing was about civil rights... ... Folk music is the music of the working class, the music...
OTIS TAYLOR The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, m...
JOOLS HOLLAND
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b... B. B. KING My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
MARK KNOPFLER My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues
MARK KNOPFLER There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o...
RUTH BROWN We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up...
MICK RALPHS
In addition to celebrating great blues music, we always wanted to make sure that proceeds from this ... MARTIN SCORSESE
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo... IAN ANDERSON I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues...
RICK DERRINGER
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.
BILL MEDLEY But my big thing was always the blues.
LUTHER ALLISON Music is a hit. People love coming and hearing live music.
CAROL WILSON My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro...
HOZIER I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA After my parents died, people were always asking me, 'Where are the dancers? I had no idea they danc...
JOAN BLEDSOE
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in th... BARRY SANDERS
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute eleganc... WYNTON MARSALIS
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ... JACK WHITE Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any ...
ALAN JACKSON I'm an old soul. The blues, especially older blues, is the human element that kind of gives the ...
BRIA SKONBERG I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played...
ALEXIS KORNER I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ...
JACKIE DESHANNON Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Coo...
L.A. REID That was a point where I dug a little bit back to some of the blues stuff. I worked with some fantas...
LEE ROCKER
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different c... JIMMY PAGE Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. ...
BUDDY GUY To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blu...
MICK FLEETWOOD The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent product...
GEORGIE FAME A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing u...
KATHLEEN BATTLE Nowadays in the black community, you'll find older people interested in the blues simply because it'...
ELIJAH WALD After disco, there really was a change. Generally, there were no more straight-up-Southern blues-roo...
ELIJAH WALD It was like Frank Sinatra. He was so popular because he was a storyteller, and it was the same thing...
MARCUS BELGRAVE I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it&#...
MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Missi...
ROBERT PLANT
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrop... CORNEL WEST She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about so...
ANN-MARIE MACDONALD
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the... JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha... MARY J. BLIGE So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy'...
JAMES YOUNG My favorite Elvis era has always been his early Sun Records stuff. It was raw, just Elvis singing wh...
DRAKE MILLIGAN With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs...
BRIAN SETZER The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there w...
BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pr...
CHARLIE WILSON Same thing with 'Long Long Way to Go' . We like to think we can tell a good song from a so-so song w...
JOE ELLIOTT
The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywh... BONNIE RAITT The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder...
RONNIE WOOD It was at the original WAMO studios in Homestead, ... Porky taped us doing 'Tequila' and 'Heavy Suga...
BOB LEONE
From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone ... JIMMY PAGE
The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music g... GARY CLARK, JR. Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
PETER TORK
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just... ETTA JAMES Blues is the roots, and everything else is the fruits. Just like you can't make soup without water, ...
BRAD WHEELER Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blu...
BUDDY GUY Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
OTIS RUSH
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART 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 I listen to all types of music. I have been in Memphis recently, so I've been listening to some blue...
BENICIO DEL TORO
I've got a combination of the blues mixed with hip-hop-all in one sound. I'm going to make a real bi... IKE TURNER
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's... PETER GABRIEL
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. BARRY GIBB I have to figure out a way to show how raunchy blues music can be a religious experience.
CRAIG BREWER What they did the third quarter was to not miss a shot. Everybody was on. No matter what defense we ...
RON GINAPP I was looking for a place to live and so we decided to be roommates.
ANGELA BARRAZA The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musician...
ALBERTA HUNTER
Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this inst... AURORA T.J. was crazy for the blues. We were in a band together back in the eighth grade, and T.J. would li...
JOE ELY
We're not like a nostalgia act, or the normal classic rock act -- we're a really good musical organi... STEVE MILLER Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were ...
ARCHIE SHEPP
Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing a... FRED ROGERS That's folk music, swing, country blues, old time country, jazz. It's the roots of American music.
DOMINIC SUCHYTA I'm looking forward to it because I haven't played in town too much this year, ... We've always had ...
JAMES PETERSON It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca...
LIONEL RICHIE We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard, ... Everything was...
JOEY RAMONE
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. DAVID EDWARDS When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't reall...
WAYNE COYNE I want him to learn to appreciate music. This was a last minute thing we decided to do just for the ...
LAUREN VANCE
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed th... TIM CAHILL We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all ...
CHRIS STAPLETON The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART
He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART
Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young. E. LOCKHART One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded '...
CARLA BLEY
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characte... JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in te... CHRIS CORNELL
A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music. SHARON WEIL
When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was suppose... PETE TOWNSHEND I stumbled on this little scene. And little by little, that scene took over my life, ... You could m...
JOAN OSBORNE
In the bill that was introduced in the Senate, in the bill that I introduced along with some members... PAT ROBERTS
Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno... 
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri... 
When birds burp, it must taste like bugs. 
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems. 
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Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. 
Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you. 
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Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo... 
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I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that wa... 
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