The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.
Hearing the blues changed my life.
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.
I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
The blues is life itself.
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.