Blues Music Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Someday, Lifetime, Selling

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• A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.

  Dion DiMucci

  Moving, Home, Heart

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• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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

  Edgar Winter

  Jazz, Great American, Contribution

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• I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

  Johnny Winter

  Musician, Remembered

  "Johnny Winter, blues guitarist, dies aged 70", www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2014.

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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

  People, Folks, Folk Music

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• From Eden is spoken from the Devil's point of view. I always loved in blues music how the Devil can be a character who walks and talks. So awful is your state that it seems to be a presence around you. I don't really spend time thinking about the nature of God but I'm interested in what people say about God, how it is used to control people and change policies in the physical realm.

  Hozier

  Character, Thinking, Eden

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• I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Country, Book, Mean

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• There's a lot of women in blues music, lots of strong women and that sort of stuff. It's not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about blues. There were a lot of powerful blues guitar players in the olden times that were women. It's just that when you think about blues, you have this one image in your mind.

  Mirel Wagner

  Strong Women, Powerful, Player

  Source: thequietus.com

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• What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.

  Ian Astbury

  Spiritual, Artist, Rocks

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Difficult, Borrowing

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• I've always wanted to visit [Washington]. The Smithsonian has some fantastic archival material on blues music, which I'm really into. There's a ton of stuff I want to do there. but it just never happened.

  Dylan Moran

  Stuff, Want, Fantastic

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Facinating." He broke into a wide grin. "I've discovered something, Khufu. This is not Memphis, Egypt." Khufu gave me a sideways look, and I could swear his expression meant, Duh. "I've also discovered a new form of magic called blues music," the man continued. "And barbecue. Yes, you must try barbecue.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Khufu, Egypt

  "The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series". Book by Rick Riordan, July 4, 2013.

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• I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

  Nick Cave

  Country, Influence, Grew Up

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• When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

  Dan Auerbach

  Simple, Play, Hip Hop

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• As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

  Kevin Nealon

  Comedian, Musician, Littles

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• It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the individuals being portrayed. To accurately reflect their viewpoint and emotions about blues music requires airing of certain material that, if prohibited, would undercut the ability of the filmmaker to convey the reality of the subject of the documentary.

  Jonathan Adelstein

  Reality, Common Sense, Culture

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• I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.

  William Eggleston

  Musician, Want, Facts

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• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.

  Walter Becker

  Player, People, Rock N Roll

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• We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.

  Alan Price

  Artist, Missionary Zeal, Attempting

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