Blues Quotes - page 11

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing. (Lisa Marie Presley)
If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it. View quote
Tobin Bell
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues. View quote
Ron Wood
Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion. View quote
Ron Wood
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential. View quote
Billy Gibbons
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. View quote
Billy Gibbons
The blues is life itself. View quote
Billy Gibbons
So don't tell me the story of your life I'd rather watch the movie Your Hollywood smile is not enough You're giving me the blues So when are you going to understand I'm not the woman to make you a man. View quote
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug. View quote
Russell Simmons
For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required. View quote
John C. Reilly
I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed by close-harmony groups. Actually, I'm fascinated particularly by brother duos, how they blend together. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, The McQuarrys. There's something inherently magical about harmony. (John C. Reilly)
On Charley Patton's voice and music style: I heard this fella, and his voice sounded like my voice. I'd always thought, ‘Well, I could never be a singer with this horrible voice'. I hated it. Absolutely hated it. Still do. But he sounded like the same kind of thing. I didn't know black American terms: a boll weevil or turnpike blues. But there was an emotion that clicked with me. I became fascinated with gospel blues. I still play more gospel than Chicago. I very rarely go anywhere near that speed, aggression, Clapton thing. Someone once reviewed me, saying the testosterone was missing from my blues solos, because I don't do Chicago. It's just alien to me. View quote
Chris Rea
I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues. View quote
Elle Fanning
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. View quote
Fats Domino
He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute. View quote
Alan Jackson
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species. View quote
Alan Lomax
The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together. View quote
Alan Price
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. View quote
Albert Murray
The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me. View quote
Alberta Hunter
Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken. View quote
Alexandra Guarnaschelli
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz. (Alexis Korner)
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. View quote
Alexis Korner
Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family. View quote
Alexis Korner
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so. View quote
Alexis Korner
In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues. View quote
Alexis Korner