Showing posts with label Blues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blues. Show all posts
Sweets Edison Quotes
"You have to have lived the Blues to play the Blues, You have to feel it." - Sweets Edison
Howlin' Wolf Quotes
"I wasn't interested in nothin' else but the blues, you know. Course now I ain't gon' pour no water on somebody else 'cause he like jazz, how-high-is-the-moon and who-bop-a-dop, that's his business." - Howlin' Wolf
B.B. King Quotes
"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." - B.B. King
Alexis Korner Quotes
"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
Carmen McRae Quotes
"Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread - without it, it's flat." - Carmen McCrae
T-Bone Walker Quotes
"I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz." - T-Bone Walker
John McLaughlin Quotes
"I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground." - John McLaughlin
Jay McShann Quotes
"My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues." - Jay McShann
Jay McShann Quotes
"I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him." - Jay McShann
Bix Beiderbecke Quotes
"The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro "blues" and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy." - Bix Beiderbecke
Charlie Haden Quotes
"James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy." - Charlie Haden
Duke Ellington Quotes
"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues." - Duke Ellington
Count Basie Quotes
"Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues." - Count Basie
