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Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city–a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has...

Your muse ain’t singin’ on your MTV? Can’t even see him on your HD TV?

I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on ‘Load’ and ‘ReLoad.’

And here’s to the blues, the real blues— where there’s a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.

After ‘The Blues Brothers,’ I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It’s our first language. It’s the rhythm of the womb. It’s your mama’s heartbeat inside your head.

When you are through with the blues, you’ve got nothing to rest on.

….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.

What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categoriesthat restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn’t have any way to...

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin’ stay undefined?

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC

When there’s music in your soul, there’s soul in your music.

Pino Baylon Video” e la registrazione e mixaggio sono stati effettuati presso lo studio SG SOUND MUSIC ITALY di Savio De Martino.Il video è già disponibile su YouTube.

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis,...

The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound.

You see, there’s some blues for folks ain’t never had a thing, and that’s a sad blues … but the saddest kind of blues is for them that’s had everything they ever wanted and has...

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

Crisi Esistenziale” – (Testo e Musica : Savio De Martino)CHI SONO IO PER SENTIRMI UN DIO,E CHI SEI TU PER DECIDERE,CHI SIAMO NOI NON LO SAPREMO MAI,MA CERTO STA’ CHE NON SIAMO EROI,IL MONDO VA’...

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.

I don’t want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had...

John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe, and so they do not worry. They go on and laugh and sing....

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.

Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’...

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.

After we became a couple, she composed our time together. She planned days as if they were artistic events. One afternoon we went to Tybee Island for a picnic; we ate blueberries and drank champagne...

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don’t know how it got there.

I’ve never met God, but I’ve heard the blues.

But my big thing was always the blues.

La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu’après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait bien de descendre dans les Caraïbes pour continuer sur le thème du reggae. Ils organisèrent un voyage en...

I saw ‘Mahogany’ and ‘Lady Sings the Blues’ when I was little and thought, ‘That’s what I want to do.’

As a comedian, you’re kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

There’s something lyrical about an eternal truth. It’s a graceful riff. A free-flowing melody. Light and airy, it floats all around you. And when it lands on your ears, when you hear it for the...

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

…I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject...

I used to be a great blues singer.

She’s no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It’s called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like...

Have you got any soul?” a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I’ve got loads,...

You hear lots of notes, don’t you? Some have a major sound. Some have a minor sound. But there’s not one blue note among all these black and white keys. The real blues, the soul...

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

I’m a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some...

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self–to the mediating intellect–as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible...