A musical soundtrack of sweet, sweet blues for your early morning enjoyment.
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.
— Ronnie Wood
Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton, “Black and Blue”
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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
— B.B. King
Houston Person, “Jamilah”
The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
— John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker, “Boom Boom”
They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
— Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
Peggy Lee, “Black Coffee”
The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
— Odetta Holmes
Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers, “Beale Street Blues”
Everything comes out in blues music... joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
— Wynton Marsalis
Etta James, “Damn Your Eyes”
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