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The character was defined for me from the first episode. He`s introduced as this badass, smarmy and sarcastic, who doesn`t give a crap about anything. But he also exhibits tidbits of vulnerability. In Asteroid Blues" you see traces of his vulnerability in...
Steven Jay Blum
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Everybody thinks I`m, like, a bad boy. I`ve had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.
Brad Renfro
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[reflecting on his lengthy acting career] "It`s always seemed to me like a mission. A holy one, like the Blues Brothers. It`s a marathon. You can`t quit, even coming in dead last has honor. Quitting doesn`t. Look, I had absolute faith in my future when I ...
David Carradine
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
Eric Clapton
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I think I would most like to be Uma Thurman in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993). That character was just so cool.
Emily Perkins
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I feel very close to the western. There are not too many American art forms that are original. Most are derived from European art forms. Other than the western and jazz or blues, that`s all that`s really original.
Clint Eastwood
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You put Genesis over there in a corner with Yes, ELP, Moody Blues and the Floyd (Pink Floyd) because that`s the period we happened to come up in. I don`t like any of those groups - so it angers me and frustrates me when we get compared to them.
Phil Collins
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[about working in Bad City Blues (1999)] I`d been playing a lot of mothers and while I was a mother in this story as well, I got to rob banks, jump off of balconies and shoot guns . . . all while wearing leather!
Judith Hoag
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If it hadn`t been for Carleton [University], The Blues Brothers (1980) would never have been made.
Dan Aykroyd
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I`ve always been a singer; it`s not new to me. I`ve been singing since I was a child. I`ve always had a guitar and a harmonica and I played drums in high school -- in a marching band, anyway. I like different kinds of music and I`m exploring them: ballads...
Harry Stanton
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I`ve had people come up to me and say Jake and Elwood Blues are these legendary blues artists and I start thinking `uh-oh`.
John Landis
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I`ve had people come up to me and say Jake and Elwood Blues are these legendary blues artists and I start thinking `uh-oh`.
John Landis
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[On The Blues Brothers (1980) sequel] "Basically they gave us the budget to make the film. We got paid zero. I wanted James Belushi to play the part Joe Morton did, but he was doing a TV show and couldn`t do it. But Morton did a great job and John Goodman...
Dan Aykroyd
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[eulogizing his good friend and fellow Blues Brother, the late great John Belushi] "...A good man, but a bad boy."
Dan Aykroyd
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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it`s a pretty honorable position to be in.
Eric Clapton
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It`s fascinating to me, the shows that I`ve always loved the best, Hill Street Blues" (1981), "Wiseguy," "Twin Peaks" (1990) have always been shows that did have accumulative knowledge. One of the reasons why "The X Files" (1993) started to leave me cold ...
Joss Whedon
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Yeah; I`m a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I`m in, we were always trying to make popular records.
Stephen Stills
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With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That`s a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.
Brian Setzer
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When you are through with the blues, you`ve got nothing to rest on.
Mahalia Jackson
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When I started workin` with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin` the blues.
Johnny Winter
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When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.
Jonny Lang
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What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
Ray Charles
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Well, I don`t know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that`s what I am.
John Hunter
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Well, I don`t know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that`s what I am.
John Hunter
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We just wanted to make a record that sounded cool. So we stole from hip-hop, we stole from techno and blues and mashed them all up.
Shirley Manson
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We had to get up for a tough match last week against the Blues and we had to get up again this week. The Chiefs threw everything at us and we had to defend all night but we got away with a win.
Ann Douglas
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We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
Ruth Brown
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We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
Ruth Brown
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To a lesser extent (they like) the whites and reds, but blues, yellows and oranges are the main bee flowers. Although there are very good white bee flowers - white sweet clover is the best honey plant in the world.
Chip Taylor
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This is the problem, you gotta get into all this mixture of rock and blues that is happening in a feeble way these days. No one wants to go out and see a guy in a club who really can`t play that well playing through a 300-watt Marshall blowing their face ...
Kim Wilson
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