#blues

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black. ↗

— Jack White

#ago #black #black music #blues #come

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#always #blues #down #fit #jazz

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues. ↗

— Neil Young

#blue #blues #i #now #pretending

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them. ↗

— John Goodman

#along #blues #checking #harp #i

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

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