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I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.' ~ Richie Havens
Sonnys Blues quotes by Richie Havens
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers. ~ Johnny Winter
Sonnys Blues quotes by Johnny Winter
When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues. ~ Jonny Lang
Sonnys Blues quotes by Jonny Lang
Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich dark reds and Lincoln greens against fishscale greys and arctic blues. ~ John Keegan
Sonnys Blues quotes by John Keegan
Techno-shamanism is a sub-genre of science fiction that is not recognized. Ernest Hogan's "Smoking Mirror Blues" is a seminal work in techno-shamanism. ~ Frank S. Lechuga
Sonnys Blues quotes by Frank S. Lechuga
I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf. ~ Caleb Johnson
Sonnys Blues quotes by Caleb Johnson
I find it wholesome to be alone in the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. i never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men then when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping and not feel lonesome, because he is employed; but when he comes home at night he cannot sit down in a room alone, at the mercy of his thoughts, but must be where he can "see the folks," and recreate, and as he thinks remunerate, himself for his day's solitude; and hence he wonders how the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui and "the blues;" but he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his woods, as the farmer in his, and in turn seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does, though it may be a more condensed form of it. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Sonnys Blues quotes by Henry David Thoreau
I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind. ~ Bill Withers
Sonnys Blues quotes by Bill Withers
My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was happy and was going to pat me on the head and say I was good. But he took me home and told my grandmother this youngin' was at school singing the blues. ~ Mavis Staples
Sonnys Blues quotes by Mavis Staples
Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults. ~ Sam Phillips
Sonnys Blues quotes by Sam Phillips
I had often said that I would write, the wives of geniuses I have sat with. I have sat with so many. I have sat with wives who were not wives, of geniuses who were real geniuses. I have sat with real wives of geniuses who were not real geniuses. In short, I have sat very often and very long with many wives and wives of many geniuses.' Gertrude Stein wrote this in the voice of her partner, Alice B. Toklas, Stein being apparently the genius, Alice apparently the wife.
'I am nothing,' Alice said after Gertrude dies, 'but a memory of her.'
... the flashing blues and red made him look ill, then well, then ill again ... ~ Lauren Groff
Sonnys Blues quotes by Lauren Groff
The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it. ~ John Lee Hooker
Sonnys Blues quotes by John Lee Hooker
There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out. ~ Lucinda Williams
Sonnys Blues quotes by Lucinda Williams
The crew on 'Varsity Blues' was phenomenal. ~ Ron Lester
Sonnys Blues quotes by Ron Lester
The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude. ~ Brownie McGhee
Sonnys Blues quotes by Brownie McGhee
Blues fallin' down like hail And the day keeps on worryin' me There's a hell hound on my trail. ~ Robert Johnson
Sonnys Blues quotes by Robert Johnson
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician. ~ Jonathan Tropper
Sonnys Blues quotes by Jonathan Tropper
I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style. ~ Eddie Van Halen
Sonnys Blues quotes by Eddie Van Halen
I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living. ~ Bonnie Raitt
Sonnys Blues quotes by Bonnie Raitt
I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar. ~ Dan Auerbach
Sonnys Blues quotes by Dan Auerbach
OK," he said. "'It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.'" I felt my mouth quirk at the Blues Brothers quote. And I thought - even if he's never going to feel the same way that I do, it doesn't matter. I still want to be with him. I never wanted to be without him. "Hit it," I said. ~ L.A. Weatherly
Sonnys Blues quotes by L.A. Weatherly
The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals. ~ Lykke Li
Sonnys Blues quotes by Lykke Li
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence. ~ David Gilmour
Sonnys Blues quotes by David Gilmour
There is a storytelling element in there. The tango form is a little like the blues in that you have a kind of structure. It's not as rigid as twelve bar, but it's very much a storytelling medium -- and there's an element of call-and-response, and a particular arc in the musical form, that suggest a story. It's about being in the moment, with the music; and responding to your partner, and the particular feeling and momentum in her body in any one moment. It's a very concentrated thing; you can't think about anything else while you are doing it. If you try to hold a conversation, it just kind of falls apart. The music was what really drew me into tango. Everyone knows a few of the more popular tango classics, but once you get into it, there's such a rich field. It's astonishing, this kind of miraculous musical form that developed in a very small locality: two cities on either side of the River Plate, in Argentina and Urugauy. It started in the 1880s or '90s, and there are all kinds of mysteries, myths and stories, about how tango started and developed. It was first of all considered really low-life, almost reptilian. Something to be avoided and not talked about. And then it became this word wide phenomena. . .and I could go on talking about tango forever. . . . but its also to do with movement. I try to get that into my pictures: a sense of movement, something flowing through. A while ago, I realised how much I'd been drawing dancing figures in the corners of my sketchbooks fo ~ Alan Lee (artist)
Sonnys Blues quotes by Alan  Lee (artist)
Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music. ~ Peter Tork
Sonnys Blues quotes by Peter Tork
The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing. ~ Bob Mould
Sonnys Blues quotes by Bob Mould
I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself ... In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues. ~ Charles Burnett
Sonnys Blues quotes by Charles Burnett
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music. ~ Eric Clapton
Sonnys Blues quotes by Eric Clapton
If you listen to soul music, or R&B music, or Blues music, a lot of that came from church music and spiritual music, and music has always been a really really powerful tool that people have used to get them closer to God - whatever they define God as. And for me that's always been part of what drew me to it and keeps me coming back for more. ~ Joan Osborne
Sonnys Blues quotes by Joan Osborne
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
Sonnys Blues quotes by Alexis Korner
During social studies, otherwise known as Dad's cirriculum as the Ways and Means of the Indefatigable White People, my father used to warn me about listening to rap or the blues with Caucasian strangers. And as I got older, I'd be admonished not to play Monopoly, drink more than two beers, or smoke weed with them either. For such activities can breed a false sense of familiarity . And nothing, from a hungry jungle cat to the African ferryboat, is more dangerous than a white person on what they think is familiar ground. ~ Paul Beatty
Sonnys Blues quotes by Paul Beatty
I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.' ~ Teri Hatcher
Sonnys Blues quotes by Teri Hatcher
I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time. ~ Lou Rawls
Sonnys Blues quotes by Lou Rawls
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues. ~ Ellen Willis
Sonnys Blues quotes by Ellen Willis
Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God. ~ Craig Werner
Sonnys Blues quotes by Craig Werner
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