#blues

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music. ↗

— Keith Richards

#been #blues #deliverance #esoteric #generous

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#drink #enough #having #immerse #losing

I was always a closet blues player. ↗

— Tito Jackson

#blues #closet #i #player

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#american music #blues #called #character #derives

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#blues #like #miserable #singers #their

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. ↗

— Kesha

#country #country music #day #i #i love

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer. ↗

— B. B. King

#blues #i #married #most #rather

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. ↗

— B. B. King

#black #blues #both #counts #having

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it. ↗

— B. B. King

#ashamed #bit #blues #child #family

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. ↗

— B. B. King

#call #guitar #heard #i #man