#blue

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

#cats #classics #else #first #least

Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#blue #first #mandela #me #once

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

Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music. ↗

— Peter Tork

#blues #bringing #credit #dedicated #deserves

I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#big #blue #cage #capacity #face

I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#blue #fear #gliding #i #i love

I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit. ↗

— Christian Slater

#blue #face #hit #i #i am

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

#classical #country #days #early #even

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good. ↗

— Howard Stern

#blue #dead #funny #good #got

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#blue #california #coast #dark #find