#blues

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins. ↗

— Peter Tork

#blues #music #pop #pop music #vitamins

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

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#darkest #ever #greatest #heard #music

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

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently. ↗

— Otis Rush

#differently #feel #how #nobody #take

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music. ↗

— James Young

#definitely #early #maybe #much #music

This development signified also that jazz would someday have to contend with the idea of its being an art (since that was the white man's only way into it). The emergence of the white player meant that Afro-American culture had already become the expression of a particular kind of American experience, and what is most important, that this experience was available intellectually, that it could be learned. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#art