#blues

Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#character #music #personal #sadness #soul

The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but remembered what it used to be like to know God. ↗

— Barbara Hambly

#fallen-angel #music #singer #singing #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

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

— Haruki Murakami

#tokio-blues #vida

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

We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it. ↗

— Lauren Ambrose

#believe #blues #blues brothers #brick #brothers

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place. ↗

— William Bell

#blues #called #club #hat #high

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

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#classical #disciplined #found #i #limiting

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#blues #johnny #johnny winter #players #underrated