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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.
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
The Wit and Wisdom of Rock and Roll, ed. Maxim Jabukowski (1983) -
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said Oh man, this is the stuff. It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
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Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
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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.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.
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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.
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If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
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If you are feeling some December blues, or even depression, don't fight it. Instead, do something for yourself. Be reflective. Let the emotions exist. And be encouraged that, like me, you can get to a better place, but it can take time.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.
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