Quotes

Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.
-Albert Collins

The Blues is Life.
-Brownie McGhee

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
-Eric Clapton

You gotta have heart in you want to make it in this business.
-Dexter Gordon

The history of a people is found in its songs.
-George Jellinek

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristics.
-James Weldon Johnson

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
-Charlie Parker

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
-Billy Gibbons

Music isn't just learning notes and playing them, You learn notes to play to the music of your soul.
-Katie Greenwood

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something
-Joe Satriani

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