For (Far Away Blues) I wrote a bunch of half songs on the piano and the guitar, and then I had kind of theme going because I had it in mind who I wanted to have on the CD. And that was my grandfather, so I had kind of a family theme going. It's different for everything I do.
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The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.
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Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.
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I'm not living the blues; I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.
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The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
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We use the spectator feeling to it which is two tones, butter and bone and two types of blues.
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Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues).
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There's only two people in blues who have names like that. There's B.B. King and Buddy Guy. But Buddy Guy cost us a ton of money last year. What really sold me on Bishop is we saw him at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, and he just ripped the place apart.
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[He could belt out traditional blues and jazz with the best of them, but -- to the dismay of jazz purists -- he would also record pop tunes that sold millions of albums.] I'm a pop commercial musician, and I've got a successful format,.. If you have the ability to perform your musical idea, you become a good jazz player.
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I am truly honored that the Blues have elected to retire my number, and I'm flattered to join the list of players who have been recognized before me. I will always consider myself part of the Blues family and will look back on my playing days here with fond memories of my teammates, my coaches, the staff and, last but not least, the fans.
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It was the names of these four men that reminded me why playing for the Blues is as good as it gets in the National Hockey League.
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Everyone has the Christmas blues. Investors are now concerned the US economy may be about to slow down.
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I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee,.. Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful.
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[She] has to be the best-kept secret in blues and gospel music. I could not believe that her voice wasn't world-famous.
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I'm an African bringing my culture to the Western world. But I use technology and rhythm and blues and jazz and rock. I make it easier for you by combining your tools with mine. But then some will say the music is not pure.
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It was as easy as falling off a log, since Sam and I both come from the same style of blues.
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B.B. Has a very specific kind of style, very lyrical. He doesn't play a lot of notes. In a slow blues arrangement, you can really hear the kind of elegance of his playing. He's not down and dirty.
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Take jazz or blues; you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to transcend it. They are affirmations and celebrations of the value and worth of the African-American spirit. And young people would do well to understand them as the roots of today's rap, rather than some antique to be tossed away.
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Blacks in America want to forget about slavery -- the stigma, the shame. That's the wrong move. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, which is the blues. And we forget it all.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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He picked cotton, he drove tractors, he worked the fields, and he never finished high school. B.B. Played the blues because he lived the blues.
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For the Blues, if this indeed is the case, it's an exciting time to have new ownership. Everybody on the hockey side and business side will now have a direction toward the future, toward next season.
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The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.
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Every possible stress you have has got to be there. The baby blues, being separated from your family, and also not knowing where you're going to go or what's going to happen in the long run.
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