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Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.
Phil Collen
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Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.
Buddy Guy
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
Carlos Santana
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Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.
Big Bill Broonzy
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Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues,' they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I'm trying to satisfy.
B. B. King
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Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
Alexis Korner
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Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.
August Wilson
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Blues fallin' down like hail And the day keeps on worryin' me There's a hell hound on my trail.
Robert Johnson
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Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into it - also part of the fun of it all.
Richard F. Thomas
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Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds good it does.
Wynton Marsalis
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Blues is like American Express. I don't leave home without it.
Buddy Guy
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
Christina Aguilera
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Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
Elvin Bishop
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Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.
Mick Taylor
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Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.
Jake Shimabukuro
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
Mahalia Jackson
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Blues are the songs of despair.
Mahalia Jackson
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
Langston Hughes
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Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.
Alberta Hunter
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I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that music to this day. Memphis never gets the credit. It's much more musically rich than Nashville ever will be. Nashville manufactured that hokey-hillbilly image way back.
Steve Young
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I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.
Robert Plant
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So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.
Steven Tyler
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I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.
Robin Trower
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Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.
Stevie Wonder
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