#blues

And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation. ↗

— David Mutti Clark

#griot #music #race-relations #spirituality #troubadour

There’s something lyrical about an eternal truth. It’s a graceful riff. A free-flowing melody. Light and airy, it floats all around you. And when it lands on your ears, when you hear it for the first time, you instantly recognize it― because it’s like bumping into an ageless, best friend. ↗

— David Mutti Clark

#griot #music #race-relations #spirituality #troubadour

La muerte no existe en contraposición a la vida sino como parte de ella. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#tokio-blues #vida

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

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#blues #emotion #jazz #jazz music #much

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players. ↗

— Dimebag Darrell

#bugs #enough #get #great #guys

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

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. ↗

— Billy Gibbons

#composed #fear #feeling #finesse #like

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band. ↗

— George Thorogood

#average #band #blues #did #every

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together. ↗

— Peter Tork

#back #blues #brings #fold #had