#blues

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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#blues #like #miserable #singers #their

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

— Moira Kelly

#cabaret #i #like #mostly #sing

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

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. ↗

— B. B. King

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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money. ↗

— B. B. King

#blues #borrow #down #dress #going

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. ↗

— B. B. King

#big brother #blues #brother #college #going