Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Blues will be another tough test, they showed that much in the way they demolished the Bulls. That is why we will have to play clever rugby.

The blues was the foundation on which rock 'n' roll was built.

Richie McCaw

The Blues threw everything at us and got points on us in the first half but the guys kept their composure and we really went up a level to come away with the win.

The blues is part of our history, our culture, and it's being forgotten. We want to do something about that.

The blues for me ? you just feel it. It's one of the easiest forms to play, but very few people can make other people feel the blues when you play it. If it wasn't for the blues I wouldn't even want to play the guitar.

It was like Frank Sinatra. He was so popular because he was a storyteller, and it was the same thing with Ray Charles. It didn't make a difference if he was playing jazz, soul, R&B, pop or country. And it was always about the blues and the feelings he portrayed. The blues is awfully powerful.

Ike Turner

I've got a combination of the blues mixed with hip-hop-all in one sound. I'm going to make a real big change in music, man.

It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole squad did it. At first I thought it was only going to be a handful of boys, but fair play, they all did it, and a few of the coaches as well.

This is the longest-running continuous blues show in Maine. They really want to play here.

Vivian Campbell

into the history of blues music itself, and into my own traits as a musician, too.

In 14 hours, I don't think there were 14 minutes about women. The first commercially viable music in the world were the blues women of the 1920s.

Joni Mitchell

But you're bound to loseIf you let the blues get you scared to feel

Joni Mitchell

But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

Benicio Toro

I listen to all types of music. I have been in Memphis recently, so I've been listening to some blues like Muddy Waters, and some early Elvis.

'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.

I don't know if it was the holiday blues or what. We had no energy in the fourth quarter, which is totally out of character for us. That didn't look like the Bastrop Lady Rams out there. Offensively or defensively, we didn't play the way we are capable of playing ball. That's the reason we lost the game.

It was a win but that's about all I can say. I don't know if we had some spring break blues or what, but it seemed like we weren't that into the game.

Al MacInnis

It's good to see them back in the seats. This season hurts the Blues fans and there's a lot of them out there that are staying away. We want them to come back and I think that's going to happen here real soon.

It?s a lot of fun for everyone who plays and everyone who comes to watch. People really get into it. Last year?s Town Hall team dressed in St. Patrick?s Day garb, while the year before they brought us out of the winter blues with a Hawaiian dress theme, complete with leis. You forget the fact that it?s a fund-raiser.

David Sanborn

It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's music where a lot of different elements are played at the same time. The harmonic, the melodic... You're pushing the boundaries on every level. That could be true of rhythm and blues as well. I'm a musician.

For the blues singer, the world is his text... like any artist, the blues singer has the task of bringing order out of chaos.

There's an incredibly rich rhythm- and-blues and blues tradition in Detroit.

I'm from Houston, I grew up in church, I've been singing that way since I was a boy. Kevin is from the blues capital of the world, Kansas City. We can't do a Count Basie tribute without that. You'll hear the South in anything we do.

This is a collaboration never before seen that enables us to put a bold imprint on the launch of THE BLUES BROTHERS DVD and we are incredibly excited to be the first national edition of Hollywood Master Storytellers.

Otis Taylor

The folk thing was about civil rights... ... Folk music is the music of the working class, the music of the folks. Blues is folk music.

Patty Griffin

I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive.