Jazz And Blues Quotes
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Jazz And Blues Quotes & Sayings
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The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.
— Luther Allison
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
— Ernest Gaines
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
— Willie Nelson
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
For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.
— Scott Henderson
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
— Edgar Winter
I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.
— T-Bone Walker
For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source
— Duke Robillard
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
— Miles Davis
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
— Christina Aguilera
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
— John Lescroart
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
— Bonnie Raitt
I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
— Bryan Ferry
What about a blues in W, in the key of W.
— Rahsaan Roland Kirk
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
— Edgar Winter
I am not the blues, I am jazz. I want to be present in the moment, not wallow in it.
— Christopher Moore
In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues.
— Scott Walker
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
So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.
— B.J. The Chicago Kid
Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
— Alexis Korner
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
— Robert Quine
On my John Coltrane. In a sentimental mood.
— Brandi L. Bates
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.
— Bix Beiderbecke
You play me with your jazz & leave me with the blues.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues
— Ray Davies
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.
— Adrian Mitchell
T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a pink moon
— Saira Viola
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
