Delta Blues Quotes

• It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.

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  Tim Cahill

  Water   Sound   Chicago  

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• My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

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  Mark Knopfler

  Ideas   Heaven   Delta Blues  

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• Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

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  Robert Plant

  Kids   Dark   Mississippi Delta  

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• The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

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  Jack Nicholson

  Music   Forever   Jazz  

  1998

• A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And off to west you've got Delta blues. Sprinkle Southern gospel over the top of that, and you're talking about where I came from. I loved all of that music.

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  Travis Tritt

  Brother   Home   Talking  

  4346

• The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

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  Jimmy Page

  Talking   Ideas   Long  

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• I tend to prefer the band thing. I think playing solo is good for about 45 minutes. I remember when I was on my solo tour that I got a chance to play with Martin Stephenson of the Daintees. He's now refashioned himself as almost a delta blues guitar player and he's got all the technique, all the persona and the charisma on stage. I think I do too, but I'm more of a first position strummer guy with a little bit of filigree work. I could listen to him for hours; I could listen to myself playing solo for about half an hour!

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  Bill Mallonee

  Player   Thinking   Guitar  

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