#blues

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#biggest #blues #curtis #general #hathaway

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues. ↗

— Jay McShann

#christian #family #get #had #i

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music. ↗

— Aaron Neville

#because #blues #cooke #gospel #i

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable. ↗

— Tom Waits

#continues #culture #enormous #everyone #had

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#blues #emotional #had #outlet #people

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#blues #emotion #jazz #jazz music #much

My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music. ↗

— Steve Cropper

#could #favorite #get #hold #i

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#blues #come #got #kind #music

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed. ↗

— Alberta Hunter

#because #been #blues #disturbed #does

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me. ↗

— Alberta Hunter

#best #blues #could #i #know