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The Blues

«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.»
Author: B. B. King | Keywords: blues, missed, ray, The Blues, Vaughan
«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.»
«Holly: The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of.»
«Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.»
Author: Count Basie | About: Music | Keywords: blues, The Blues
«The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad»
Author: Leon Redbone | Keywords: blues, The Blues
«White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.»
Author: Ma Rainey (Singer) | Keywords: blues, come out, The Blues
«Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.»
«Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.»
«I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.»
Author: Denis Waitley (Author, Speaker) | Keywords: blues, shoes, The Blues