#blue

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#brother #chicago #city #come #daughter

My first instrument was a little blue ukele. ↗

— Billy Ocean

#first #instrument #little

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#brown #guy #i #interested #james

What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#american #american people #blueprint #budget #children

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce. ↗

— Tom Peters

#behind #blue-collar #change #computer #driving

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers. ↗

— Tom Peters

#finally #lives #offices #reaching #revolution

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#army #blues #called #first #i

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too. ↗

— Liz Phair

#done #family #felt #i #just

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. ↗

— Robert Plant

#american #american music #americana #blues #chicago

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together. ↗

— Alan Price

#behind #blues #dominates #during #eric