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" AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works. "
Joe Perry
" After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz. "
Robert Quine
" After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly. "
John Landis
" A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself. "
Jim Drain
" A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues. "
Otis Rush
" A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song. "
Albert Murray
" All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy. "
Robert Cray
" All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. "
Mose Allison
" A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of songs that structurally are quite bluesy. Sound-wise, there's a lot of indie as well. But you can't really say I'm pop-blues, because that's insulting to blues. It just can't exist. "
George Ezra
" And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve. "
Etta James
" Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital. "
Keith Richards
" Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help. "
Mahalia Jackson
" Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry. "
Donovan
" Are you really into pop? Are you really into old country? Blues? If you're not honest about your influences, then things don't sound as real as they can be. They're not as sharp a cheddar cheese as they can be. And I'm trying to be the sharpest cheddar I can be. "
Frankie Ballard
" As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit. "
Kevin Nealon
" As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues. "
Taj Mahal
" As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. "
Edgar Winter
" As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before. "
Benjamin Booker
" Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. "
Janis Joplin
" Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. "
Luther Allison
" Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere. "
David Edwards
" Blues and jazz are such a root to music. "
Donovan
" Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family. "
Alexis Korner
" Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. "
Mahalia Jackson
" Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind. "
Shawn Amos
" Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in Little Richard and Chuck Berry. "
Angus Young
" 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
" Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. "
B. B. King
" Blues is a very physical music. "
Hozier
" Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. "
Jimi Hendrix
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