Blues Quotes - page 16

I used to be a great blues singer. (Roger Daltrey)
I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation. View quote
Ronnie Milsap
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now. View quote
Ruth Brown
The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player. View quote
Steve Vai
When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso. View quote
Steve Vai
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic. View quote
Steve Winwood
I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, 'Oh, I did 'Hill Street Blues' or 'L.A. Law' and everything I do has to measure up to some preconceived notion of that,' it would paralyze you. View quote
Steven Bochco
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired. View quote
Steven Bochco
Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience. View quote
Steven Bochco
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences. View quote
Tim Cahill
The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore. (Tim Cahill)
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other. View quote
Tim Cahill
I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness. View quote
Vivian Campbell
I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place. View quote
William Bell
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens. View quote
Yael Naim
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. View quote
Youssou N'Dour
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose, Nothing don't mean nothing honey if it ain't free... And feeling good was easy, lord, when he sang the blues. You know feeling good was good enough for me, Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee. View quote
Janis Joplin
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. View quote
Janis Joplin
I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response. View quote
Cyndi Lauper
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. (Jimmy Page)
Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by. View quote
Jeff Bridges
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. View quote
David Gilmour
I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get. View quote
David Gilmour
Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing. View quote
David Gilmour