#blues

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

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When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering. ↗

— Tom Petty

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Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly. ↗

— Brad Renfro

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If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. ↗

— Keith Richards

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Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital. ↗

— Keith Richards

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

— Keith Richards

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I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues. ↗

— Johnny Winter

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I was always a closet blues player. ↗

— Tito Jackson

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I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

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

— James Weldon Johnson

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