Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'

I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.

British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

I was singing the blues when I was six. Kind of sad, eh?

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.

If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.

Blues players are around for 50 years, and that's just fine.

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

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.

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

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

House of Blues has soul right down to the chef in the kitchen.

There was a great blues scene in Belfast during the late '60s.

I cross-dressed as the judge in 'Hill Street Blues,' you know.

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson.

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

I love the St. Louis Blues, it's the only team I openly root for.

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

My first concert was Chicago and Moody Blues. I was 15 years old.

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.

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

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

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

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.

By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band… easy to listen to.

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