#blue

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#american music #blues #called #character #derives

I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#call #campbell #douglas #got #guthrie

The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable. ↗

— Stan Jones

#blue #even #extent #i #media

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#blues #like #miserable #singers #their

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style. ↗

— Moira Kelly

#cabaret #i #like #mostly #sing

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. ↗

— Kesha

#country #country music #day #i #i love

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer. ↗

— B. B. King

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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. ↗

— B. B. King

#black #blues #both #counts #having

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it. ↗

— B. B. King

#ashamed #bit #blues #child #family

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. ↗

— B. B. King

#call #guitar #heard #i #man