#blues

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues. ↗

— Johnny Winter

#around #aware #blues #i #i think

I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers. ↗

— Johnny Winter

#acoustic guitar #blues #enough #feel #fingers

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record. ↗

— Johnny Winter

#blues #experiment #favorite #johnny #johnny winter

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland. ↗

— Johnny Winter

#blue #blues #bobby #bought #charles

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands. ↗

— Michael Giles

#bands #blues #go #jazz #led

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

— Dexter Gordon

#hang #might #play #up #well

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about. ↗

— Luther Allison

#another #blues #created #did #i

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized. ↗

— Luther Allison

#get #just #long #recognized #takes

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues. ↗

— Luther Allison

#carry #foundation #got #jazz #other

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#also #band #bands #best #black