Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'
When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most direct, bare-bones of content. There is no interference between the head and heart.
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.
The blues is life itself.
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.