#blues

Hearing the blues changed my life. ↗

— Van Morrison

#changed #hearing #life #my life

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#business #celebrated #consolidation #deserve #difficult

If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#going #i #jimmy #record #rushing

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. ↗

— Willie Dixon

#expressed #facts #feeling #inspiration #life

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#blues #hope #i #i love #jazz

The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound. ↗

— David Mutti Clark

#death-and-dying #griot #music #spirituality #troubadour

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#classical #disciplined #found #i #limiting

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#blues #johnny #johnny winter #players #underrated

There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#acoustic guitar #blues #country #guitar #guys

There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times. ↗

— William Bell

#almost #around #big #blues #blues brothers