#blues

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. ↗

— Kid Rock

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My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues. ↗

— Kid Rock

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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#drink #enough #having #immerse #losing

I was always a closet blues player. ↗

— Tito Jackson

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I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues. ↗

— David Johansen

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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues. ↗

— Otis Rush

#bluegrass #blues #come #country #eddie

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues. ↗

— Brian Setzer

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So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#anyway #black #blues #element #everybody

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

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There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players. ↗

— Stephen Stills

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