Blues Quotes
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These Music quotes cite Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and classical and Indian influences shaping a personal take on blues and jazz.
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
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I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.
My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked...
Emotion Quotes
The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.
You ask any Olympian what the year after the Olympics is like - you always get the Olympic blues.
If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.
I was a late bloomer, but I realised that people really liked it when I played blues scales and, with the piano, I had that insatiable need to prove myself.
Music Quotes
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.
The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.
I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.
As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.
Nostalgia Quotes
The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be.
Sadness Quotes
My roots are in everything from doo-wop and blues to the Four Freshman and the Beach Boys and jazz and electronica. But it was put together in a deceptively simple package.
