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I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid. — Mose Allison

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

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph. — Jack White

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source. — B.B. King

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah. — Townes Van Zandt

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

And here's to the blues, the real blues - where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation. — David Mutti Clark

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. — Alvin Lee

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me. — B.B. King

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. — Mark Knopfler

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. — Edgar Winter

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues. — Bill Nighy

All music is the blues. All of it. — George Carlin

The music plays ... and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream. — David Mutti Clark

Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music. — Albert Collins

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. — Michael Tippett

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

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely. — Henry Rollins

The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals. — Lykke Li

The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we're bound. — David Mutti Clark

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

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music. — Keith Richards

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

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes. — L.A. Reid

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. — Kid Rock

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor. — Bob Dylan

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

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. — Fats Domino

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels. — Steven Tyler

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues. — Jerry Leiber

We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word. — Wynton Marsalis

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 sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues. — Mahalia Jackson

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. — Bruce Springsteen

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music. — Edgar Winter

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around. — Jimi Hendrix

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad. — Leon Redbone

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC — Kurt Vonnegut

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way. — PJ Harvey

I was into playing American music, especially the blues. — Mark Knopfler

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

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music. — Willie Dixon

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

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

The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do. — Vance Gilbert

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins. — Peter Tork

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

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. — Youssou N'Dour

We start our lives with blues ... with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head. — David Mutti Clark

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer. — Miles Davis

I've never met God, but I've heard the blues. — David Mutti Clark

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. — Alexis Korner

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. — Carla Bley

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. — Henry Rollins

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro

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

You might say that the universe plays the blues. — David Byrne

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is. — Brian Eno

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it. — Odetta

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world. — Ato Essandoh

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

If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues. — Johnny Ramistella

It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head. — Charlie Musselwhite

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues. — Ronnie Wood

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

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. — James Weldon Johnson

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going. — Langston Hughes

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. — Bill Medley