178 Quotes About Blues



  • Author Peter Heller
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    What I can play is blues. She was never that into blues. I can salve with Lightning and Cotton, BB and Clapton and Stevie Ray. I can blast Son Seals singing Dear Son until the coyotes in the creek raise up a sympathetic sky ripping interpretation of the harmonica solo. Piercing howls and yelps. Sounds like it’s killing them and also like they love it. Which when you get right down to it is the blues.

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  • Author Lisa Wingate
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    My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room.

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  • Author Andy Warhol
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    No les interesa la pintura. Catherine Guinness [véase Introducción] no se puso pesada hasta el último día, cuando empezó con esa cosa tan fastidiosa que hacen los ingleses de preguntar y preguntar: «¿Qué es exactamente el pop art?». Era como cuando entrevistamos a ese chico del blues, Albert King, para Interview, y ella le preguntó: «¿Qué es exactamente el soul?».

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  • Author Dan Aykroyd
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    I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,'

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  • Author Dan Aykroyd
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    This is just the beginning, ... Obviously we're going to have the House of Blues Foundation involved in subsidizing the employees' down there livelihood.

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  • Author Gaye Adegbalola
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    In 14 hours, I don't think there were 14 minutes about women. The first commercially viable music in the world were the blues women of the 1920s.

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