Quotes by Blues I love blues, mellow rock 'n' roll. Rande Gerber rock blues mellow love You ask any Olympian what the year after the Olympics is like - you always get the Olympic blues. Tom Daley blues year you always I was always a closet blues player. Tito Jackson closet blues always player It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record. Hugh Laurie blues man rich eye My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding. Hozier blues grounded chicago education I just play blues for fun. Howlin' Wolf blues just play fun It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this kind of vibrant music and when I first started playing in a blues band I just wanted to bring it to a wider public who hadn't really heard it. Steve Winwood blues start music white Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts. Steve Cropper blues amazing said people My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music. Steve Cropper blues moment music research I'm sort of East Coast, so I like the off-white and the navy blues and the low-key preppy kind of thing. Stephanie Courtney low-key blues like navy I'm trained in classical music, and my favourites have always been rock n' roll and blues, but I've grown up with different kinds of music around me because of my parents. Shruti Haasan blues parents me music Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind. Shawn Amos colorblind rock blues soul I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I thought I was going to be a major leaguer. But I was the only one who seemed to think so. Robert Preston blues only thought think The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other. Robert Palmer blues free you way The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing. Ry Cooder blues sentimental earth humble The crew on 'Varsity Blues' was phenomenal. Ron Lester blues phenomenal crew 'Post 9/11 Blues' is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It's a generational thing. Riz Ahmed blues circus fear time I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul. Jack Garratt blues music soul country It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll. Jim Sullivan rock blues music country I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds. John Abercrombie guys blues up listening 12345»