#blues

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right. ↗

— Otis Rush

#grab #pains #right #sing #them

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#activities #back #believe #blues #comes

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#between #blues #chord #difference #different

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#people #the-bluest-eye #love

You reached into my chest with your words. When you spoke, my heart danced. Love muddled thoughts based in reason. Interest withered like a flower in dry heat then your words wrapped themselves around my heart and yanked it from my body. Now I stand bewildered by the sight of my heart beating on the cold concrete floor. ↗

— Sonya Watson

#heartache #heartbreak #love-hurts #rainy-day-blues #love

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#blues #family #jazz #left #me

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#blues #cause #delivering #got #i

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players. ↗

— Dimebag Darrell

#bugs #enough #get #great #guys

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#being #bent #blues #folks #get

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#blues #forever #lives #place #prove