#blue

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

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. ↗

— B. B. King

#blues #borrow #down #dress #going

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. ↗

— B. B. King

#big brother #blues #brother #college #going

One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue. ↗

— Mia Kirshner

#blue #dog #dyed #makeup #once

I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues. ↗

— Otis Rush

#bluegrass #blues #come #country #eddie

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#blue #ends #goddam #hell #making

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#england #family #i #kid #new

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#answer #arithmetic #blue #blue sky #comes