#blues

The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream. ↗

— David Mutti Clark

#dream #meaning #reality #spirituality #dreams

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. ↗

— Tony Iommi

#basically #blues #clapton #early #english

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#blues #deep #help #pit #singing

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#best #blues #buildings #i #point

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly. ↗

— John Landis

#blues #blues brothers #brothers #correctly #dancers

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#biggest #blues #curtis #general #hathaway

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues. ↗

— Jay McShann

#christian #family #get #had #i

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music. ↗

— Aaron Neville

#because #blues #cooke #gospel #i

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. ↗

— Jimmy Page

#cultures #different #different cultures #had #i

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#blues #girl #guitarist #how #i