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“Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.”

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Author:Mick Taylor

“Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.”

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Author:Alan Freed

“The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.”

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Author:Willie Dixon

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

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Author:Son House

“Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“If you don't live it, you don't believe it.”

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Author:Paul Harvey

“The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.”

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Author:Alberta Hunter

“He not busy being born is busy dying.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.”

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Author:Dave Van Ronk

“Man, there's no boundary line to art!”

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.”

“I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.”

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Author:Justin Townes Earle

“From Eden is spoken from the Devil's point of view. I always loved in blues music how the Devil can be a character who walks and talks. So awful is your state that it seems to be a presence around you. I don't really spend time thinking about the nature of God but I'm interested in what people say about God, how it is used to control people and change policies in the physical realm.”

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Author:Hozier

“My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.”

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Author:Walter Becker

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

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Author:Kevin Nealon

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

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Author:Dan Castellaneta