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“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”

“I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.”

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Author:B. B. King

“We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.”

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Author:B. B. King

“Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.”

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Author:Count Basie

“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.”

“If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.”

“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”

“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.”

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Author:Al Jarreau

“You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.”

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Author:Herbie Mann

“They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”

“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.”

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Book:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

“It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.”

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Author:Etta James

“I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder”

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Author:Eric Clapton