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I think the blues will always be around. People need it. — Johnny Winter

And there ain't nothin' like a friend who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind.
Neil Young, "Ambulance Blues" from "On the Beach" (1974) — Neil Young

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues. — Dwight Yoakam

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter ... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record. — Johnny Winter

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that. — Harry Seidler

My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man. — Big Bill Morganfield

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues. — Bono

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future. — Willie Dixon

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning. — Willie Dixon

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll. — Sinead O'Connor

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

Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky, — Mary E. Pearson

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. — Buddy Guy

I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion. — Henry Rollins

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. — Jimi Hendrix

Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues. — Jess Row

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds. — David Levithan

I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz. — T-Bone Walker

Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them ... So you have a right to sing the blues. — Phil Rizzuto

white or black. rich or poor. if you ever had your heart broken you have right to sing the blues — Big Mama Thornton

Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites. — Jonny Lang

India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in. — Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. — Christina Aguilera

The crew on 'Varsity Blues' was phenomenal. — Ron Lester

You can always tell a car door, no other door sounds quite like it.
("New York Blues") — Cornell Woolrich

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living. — Bonnie Raitt

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet — Denis Waitley

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there. — Ma Rainey

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything — Bonnie Raitt

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age. — Bonnie Raitt

I could sit right here and think a thousand miles away, Since I had the blues this bad, I can't remember the day ... — Julio Cortazar

The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth. — Van Morrison

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues? — Tom T. Hall

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything. — Eddie Vedder

No matter what you got, the blues is there — John Lee Hooker

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now. — Ruth Brown

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. — Alberta Hunter

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. — John Mayer

No more lost days. — Marie Bannon

If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work — Jeff Chain

Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence. — Johnny Ramone

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening. — Etta James

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me! — Buddy Guy

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire! — B.B. King

When you ain't got no money, you got the blues. — Howlin' Wolf

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else. — Howlin' Wolf

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country. — Al Jourgensen

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first. — Van Morrison

If you don't know the blues ... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. — Keith Richards

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing. — B.B. King

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life. — Etta James

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.' — Teri Hatcher

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. — B.B. King

It's like Elwood Blues says: everybody needs somebody to love. I'm an everybody. I get a somebody. — Heidi Cullinan

The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude. — Brownie McGhee

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.
("New York Blues") — Cornell Woolrich

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs. — Gary Clark Jr.

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues. — Billy Collins

Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace. — Tommy Bolin

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did. — B.B. King

I am and always will be a blues guitarist — Eric Clapton

I'm using Fender Twin Reverbs and Fender Blues Devilles on stage. — Ike Turner

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues. — Johnny Winter

I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played. — George Carlin

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"A nephi-what?" asked Hugh, startled.
"Isn't that a character on Sesame Street?" Peter spoke up for the first time. — Richelle Mead

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys. — Brian Setzer

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

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew ... I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured — Amiri Baraka

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues. — Elton John

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing. — David Gilmour

Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone ... The blues are all the same. — Jackson C. Frank

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. — Barry Gibb

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about. — Luther Allison

There are only old people here. — Christie Walker Bos

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent. — Gary Gulman

Hearing the blues changed my life. — Van Morrison

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time. — Linda Barnes