Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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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.
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.
I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.
Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
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