#blue

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#delta #folk #folk music #heaven #idea

I was into playing American music, especially the blues. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#american music #blues #especially #i #into

You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#blue #comes #flame #go #good

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#blues #considered #i #jazz #man

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues. ↗

— Alexis Korner

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I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#beneficial #blues #both #form #guess

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#always #becoming #blues #could #ever

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#bar #been #blues #british #emotional

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#blues #british #development #johnny #movement

Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at the Whole Foods store in Palo Alto a few blocks from Jobs' home: 'I was shagging carts one afternoon when I saw this silver Mercedes parked in a handicapped spot. Steve Jobs was inside screaming at his car phone. This was right before the first iMac was unveiled and I'm pretty sure I could make out, 'Not. Fucking. Blue. Enough!!! ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#color #imac #perfectionism #personality #quirks