#blues

All right, Mortensen, last chance. Are you ready to make the switch from voyeur to exhibitionist?” He inclined his head toward me curiously. “Are we still talking about dancing?” “Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you’re the kind of guy who just sits around and—” He stood up. “Let’s dance. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #succubus-blues #men

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#first #first love #first thing #honest #i

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues. ↗

— Count Basie

#course #lot #still #treat #ways

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. ↗

— Walter Becker

#best #better #blues #influences #jazz

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#blues #country #early #every #few

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy. ↗

— Robert Cray

#chances #copy #developed #greats #own

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#big #blues #dig #fan #i

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

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#before #blues #called #cotton #done

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#going #guy #his #i #john