Quotes About Delta Blues

#1. 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.

Tim Cahill

#2. The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

David Edwards

#3. 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.

Robert Plant

#4. 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.

Travis Tritt

#5. 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.

Jimmy Page

#6. I don't believe that, with the click of a mouse, you should be able to buy unlimited amounts of ammunition.

Bob Menendez

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John Collison

#8. Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. That's okay," Apollo replied, smiling at him in a wholly creepy' hide your kids' kind of way. "When you least expect it, I'm going to turn you into a a pink flower that smells like cat pee.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. When we are unable to change an event that has already been written in the stars, we are always presented the opportunity to surrender to the heart and find a new pathway to peace. Understanding Divine Reason allows us to honor God's Divine Plan.

Molly Friedenfeld

#11. I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, and I would prefer to be even a satyr than a saint.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Mark Knopfler

#13. Today we are here, and tomorrow we are gone, amounted to a handful of memories. It's freaking depressing.

Tarryn Fisher

#14. There are some Buddhist philosophers (a branch referred to as Zen) who say that sometimes a bad thing happens to prevent a worse thing happening,

Kate Atkinson

#15. When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.

Zhuangzi

#16. I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

Mose Allison

#17. The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.

M. R. DeHaan

#18. Not-my cousin Helen.

Josephine Angelini

#19. Live your Art. Don't think about it.

Bill Viola

#20. Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. Language is alive, and you can't put it in the freezer. But

Lionel Shriver

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

Jack Nicholson

#23. The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

Tim Cahill

#24. It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."

Questlove