#blues

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first. ↗

— Van Morrison

#back #belfast #blues #club #doing

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#blues #delta #easy #forever #jazz

I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#certain #ever #friends #gift #greatest

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly. ↗

— Brad Renfro

#bad boy #blues #boy #day #everybody

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#am #blues #guitarist #i #i am

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers. ↗

— Eddie Floyd

#blues #blues brothers #brothers #go #i

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#grew #i #like #lot #up

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#despair #gospel #gospel songs #hope #songs

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#blues #deep #help #pit #sings

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#blues #count #decided #direct #discover