#blues

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

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

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

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church. ↗

— Art Blakey

#blues #church #come #i #jazz

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

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#blues #cast #ensemble #gave #hill

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#being #bent #blues #folks #get