#blues

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there. ↗

— Ma Rainey

#come #folks #got #hear #how

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time. ↗

— Lou Rawls

#been #blues #doing #done #full

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well. ↗

— Haley Reinhart

#classic #classic rock #i #i love #love

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues. ↗

— Little Richard

#blues #call #change #down #music

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right. ↗

— Otis Rush

#grab #pains #right #sing #them

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#activities #back #believe #blues #comes

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#between #blues #chord #difference #different

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable. ↗

— Tom Waits

#continues #culture #enormous #everyone #had

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#blues #emotional #had #outlet #people

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. ↗

— Edgar Winter

#as far as #blues #concerned #contributions #far