#blues

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

#day #revival #sinner #sound

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music. ↗

— Ben Harper

#american music #because #blues #cornerstones #diet

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#easy #feel #hard #play

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#blues #gettin #her #hug #kiss

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#blues #choice #choke #down #garbage

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#cause #deep #full #give #got

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#back #because #blues #get #going

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#every #line #meaning #story #tells

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#back #blues #europe #go #parts

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am. ↗

— John Hunter

#am #before #blown #blues #define