#blues

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#blues #i #nothing #see #singing

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.' ↗

— B. B. King

#blues #country #i #just #me

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#blues #city #complicated #difficult #dog

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money. ↗

— Christine McVie

#blues #care #commercially #got #i

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix. ↗

— Eddie Money

#blues #hendrix #i #janis #janis joplin

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing. ↗

— Bob Mould

#blues #career #certain #connect #different

The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit' it. Now, if that ain't the blues, I don't know what is. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#life #love #life

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#guys #junior #know #maybe #out

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#bluegrass #blues #classical #creative #i

T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a "pink moon ↗

— Saira Viola

#jazz #melanchloy #life