Quotes
A patron at Taylor Books, speaking to Scott:
"So, what kind of music do you play?"
Scott's reply:
"Blues" (then, after no response from the patron) ...
"Don't I look like a blues player?"
The patron's reply:
"Well, maybe on the inside."
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"If you play too many notes, you're just like a
used car salesman who won't shut up." -- Mac Carey
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"When you're playing the blues, it's not what you play that counts ...
it's what you don't play." -- B. B. King
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"Play every note you know, and let the
audience and God sort it out." -- Scott Rogan
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"I merely took the energy it takes to pout
and wrote some blues." -- Duke Ellington
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"Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins." -- Peter Tork
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"Every bad situation is a blues song
waiting to happen." -- Amy Winehouse
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"Anybody singing the blues is in a
deep pit yelling for help." -- Mahalia Jackson
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"Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues,
but it will still be the blues." -- Count Basie
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"You and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love.
You can't sleep at nights.
That's the blues." -- John Lee Hooker
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"I like blues, but it is music
I'm too ignorant to understand." -- Barry Gibb
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"It is from the blues that everything called American music
derives its most distinctive character." -- James Weldon Johnson
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"A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin',
and that's the blues." -- Otis Rush
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"If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to
be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank
to borrow money." -- B. B. King
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"If you can't play the blues, you might as well
hang it up." -- Dexter Gordon
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"The blues - the sound of a sinner
on revival day." -- William Christopher Handy
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"White folks hear the blues come out,
but they don't know how it got there." -- Ma Rainey
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"If you don't know the blues, there's no point in
even picking up a guitar." -- Keith Richards
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"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable." -- Janis Joplin
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"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel." -- Jimi Hendrix
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"The blues tells a story.
Every line of the blues has a meaning." -- John Lee Hooker
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"I think the blues will always be around.
People need it." -- Johnny Winter
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"The blues are composed of feeling, finesse and fear." -- Billy Gibbons
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"If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all." -- Albert King
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"Most of the blues was done by men;
women just didn't have the nerve." -- Etta James
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"I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie
Ray Vaughn missed on both counts, but I never noticed." -- BB King
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"The blues is a low down achin' heart disease." -- Robert Johnson
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"The blues will always be, because the blues are
the roots of all American music." -- Willie Dixon
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"I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Water's early records -
only louder." -- Eric Clapton
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"Simple music is hard to play,
and blues is simple music." -- Albert Collins
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"The blues is life." -- Brownie McGhee
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"The blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad." -- Leon Redbone
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"All music, even Beethoven, is the blues ...
unless it's 'Zipideedodah'. " -- Townes Van Zandt
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"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, a half a pack of
cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses." -- Elwood Blues
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"Anyone who thinks playin' the blues is easy
ain't never played the blues." -- Jim Spence
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"Ten rules for getting rid of the blues: go out and do something for someone else - repeat it nine times." -- Anonymous
