#blues

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

#classical #disciplined #found #i #limiting

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

#blues #johnny #johnny winter #players #underrated

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

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#background #because #blues #dealing #decided

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#blues #forever #lives #place #prove

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#blues #gone #guys #honorable #i

I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed. ↗

— Monique Coleman

#i #obsessed #reds #yellows

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. ↗

— Billy Gibbons

#composed #fear #feeling #finesse #like

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together. ↗

— Peter Tork

#back #blues #brings #fold #had

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz. ↗