#blues

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

— Johnny Winter

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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. ↗

— Eric Clapton

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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#despair #gospel #gospel songs #hope #songs

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

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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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But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style. ↗

— Moira Kelly

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I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. ↗

— Kesha

#country #country music #day #i #i love

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer. ↗

— B. B. King

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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. ↗

— B. B. King

#black #blues #both #counts #having

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it. ↗

— B. B. King

#ashamed #bit #blues #child #family