#blues

What I can play is blues. She was never that into blues. I can salve with Lightning and Cotton, BB and Clapton and Stevie Ray. I can blast Son Seals singing Dear Son until the coyotes in the creek raise up a sympathetic sky ripping interpretation of the harmonica solo. Piercing howls and yelps. Sounds like it’s killing them and also like they love it. Which when you get right down to it is the blues. ↗

— Peter Heller

#the-blues #love

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

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

— Robert Cray

#chances #copy #developed #greats #own

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

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly. ↗

— John Landis

#blues #blues brothers #brothers #correctly #dancers

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

— Jay McShann

#christian #family #get #had #i

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there. ↗

— Ma Rainey

#come #folks #got #hear #how

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues. ↗

— Little Richard

#blues #call #change #down #music