#blues

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#belongs #blues #century #fugue #like

I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#certain #ever #friends #gift #greatest

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly. ↗

— Brad Renfro

#bad boy #blues #boy #day #everybody

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues. ↗

— Johnny Winter

#appreciate #away #blow #blues #i

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#baby #blues #comes #get #like

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#am #blues #guitarist #i #i am

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

— Mahalia Jackson

#despair #gospel #gospel songs #hope #songs

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

— Mahalia Jackson

#blues #deep #help #pit #sings

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

— B. B. King

#blues #i #married #most #rather