#blues

After we became a couple, she composed our time together. She planned days as if they were artistic events. One afternoon we went to Tybee Island for a picnic; we ate blueberries and drank champagne tinted with curacao and listened to Miles Davis, and when I asked the name of her perfume, she said it was L'Heure Bleue. She talked about 'perfect moments.' One such moment happened that afternoon; she'd been napping; I lay next to her, reading. She said, 'I'll always remember the sounds of the sea and of pages turning, and the smell of L'Heure Bleue. For me they signify love. ↗

— Susan Hubbard

#blues #champagne #curacao #l-heure-bleue #miles-davis

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#music #robert-johnson #music

....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God. ↗

— Craig Werner

#music #religion #soul #witty #music

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect. ↗

— Luther Allison

#chance #got #i #input #just

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. ↗

— Mose Allison

#classic #jazz #jazz players #lot #players

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#blues #family #jazz #left #me

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#blues #cause #delivering #got #i

There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#acoustic guitar #blues #country #guitar #guys

There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times. ↗

— William Bell

#almost #around #big #blues #blues brothers

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. ↗

— Carla Bley

#art #band #better #blues #could