#blues

There are only old people here. ↗

— Christie Walker Bos

#goodbye-blues #hello-love #love

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#course #different #green #longer #now

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things. ↗

— Ray Davies

#consisted #country #our #repertoire #rhythm

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#blues #book #country #get #i

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. ↗

— Robin Trower

#blues #clock #first #heard #i

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#blues #feet #had #i #man

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#big night #blues #cents #everybody #find

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#born #chicago #feel #had #hear

If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

#hang #might #play #up #well

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

#day #revival #sinner #sound