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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Jimi Hendrix

It was the beginnings of what would later become electric blues and eventually become rock and roll.

Joel Slotnikoff

San Francisco Bay Blues.

Kathy Robinson

Blues in the Night.

Henry Mancini

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

Count Basie

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

James Weldon Johnson

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

Ruth Brown

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

Mahalia Jackson

My God, I never heard a woman sing the blues like you sing the blues.

Willie Dixon

We found her singing at a blues bar, ... where she was waitressing.

Jon Nicholson

I am returning to the Blues.

Claude Makelele

Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues).

Allen Toussaint

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

Louis Jordan

Everything from blues to opera!

Jelly Roll Morton

For her to call us and cry the blues to us, you know, about how she's feeling and stuff.

Sharon Bradford

All the musicians get together -- the top blues guys from the old guard and the new.

Tommy Castro

But you're bound to loseIf you let the blues get you scared to feel.

Joni Mitchell

It was as easy as falling off a log, since Sam and I both come from the same style of blues.

Anson Funderburgh

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

Stephen Stills

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.

Johnny Winter

[Best-selling beauty author and] Cosmetics Cop ... Back to School Blues: Battling Blemishes.

Paula Begoun

St. Louis Blues.

Ethel Waters

Their idols were not pop stars but blues singers. Those idols were old already. So why would they not be old and perform?

Ethan Russell

Shaking the Blues Away.

Eddie Cantor