#blues

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers. ↗

— Eddie Floyd

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I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

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I was always a closet blues player. ↗

— Tito Jackson

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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. ↗

— Al Jarreau

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I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

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I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues. ↗

— David Johansen

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

— James Weldon Johnson

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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. ↗

— Janis Joplin

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