#blues

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues. ↗

— Neil Young

#blue #blues #i #now #pretending

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music. ↗

— Ben Harper

#american music #because #blues #cornerstones #diet

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#easy #feel #hard #play

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#fine #free #i #i think #made

If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts. ↗

— Todd Barry

#blues brothers #brothers #go #i #nuts

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#band #blues #heavier #heavy #just

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#got #nothing #rest #through #you

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#back #been #blues #born #bureau

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#believes #blues #enough #experience #hard

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#black #blues #clubs #fun #got