#blues

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

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Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues. ↗

— John Mayall

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Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. ↗

— John Mayer

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I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. ↗

— John Mayer

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I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. ↗

— John Mayer

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Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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I still like to play the blues more than anything else. ↗

— Christine McVie

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The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over. ↗

— Christine McVie

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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first. ↗

— Van Morrison

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