All Quotes

The Blossoms had gotten so we were working seven days a week, three or four sessions a day, which was literally killing us, physically. With the instruments that the musicians play, they can do that, but not with us using our voices.
‐‐ Darlene Love

The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all.
‐‐ Darlene Love

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.
‐‐ Ray Kurzweil

The Blue Dogs are a group of conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives.
‐‐ Jim Matheson

The Blue Dogs are all Democrats; they are. And I'll tell you, in terms of wearing the Democratic label, I think they're the true Democrats, because that label usually hurts them when they're running for election.
‐‐ Jim Matheson

The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
‐‐ Georg Trakl

The blueberry-soy weight-loss smoothies my son makes for me taste terrible, but my doctor says they're good for me.
‐‐ Sirio Maccioni

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
‐‐ Gary Larson

The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly... I felt really welcome.
‐‐ Steve Martin

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
‐‐ Jack Nicholson

The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.
‐‐ August Wilson

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
‐‐ Michael Tippett

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
‐‐ Eric Clapton

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.
‐‐ Peter Tork

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.
‐‐ Jimmy Rushing

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.
‐‐ Ronnie Wood

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
‐‐ Billy Gibbons

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.
‐‐ Shawn Amos

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
‐‐ Nick Cave

The blues is life itself.
‐‐ Billy Gibbons

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.
‐‐ Tom Waits

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.
‐‐ Albert Murray

The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?
‐‐ David Edwards

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.
‐‐ Bob Mould

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.
‐‐ Luther Allison

The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.
‐‐ Steve Vai

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.
‐‐ Mick Taylor

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

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
‐‐ John Lee Hooker

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.
‐‐ Jimmy Rushing

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
‐‐ B. B. King

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
‐‐ B. B. King

The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for contraception or any other kind of procedure if the employer had a 'moral' objection to it.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an equal amount of additional value, there's no net gain.
‐‐ Charles Platt

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.
‐‐ Carlo Goldoni

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.
‐‐ Shaun White

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
‐‐ Jacques Derrida

The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips.
‐‐ S. Jay Olshansky

The Bodleian Library, next to the Sheldonian, is one of the great libraries of the world. As well as holding most of the books printed in England since the first quarter of the 17th century, it houses priceless printed texts, manuscripts, and collections.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

The body and dendrites of a nerve cell are specialized for the reception and integration of information which is conveyed as impulses that are fired from other nerve cells along their axons.
‐‐ John Eccles

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.
‐‐ Suzanne Farrell

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.
‐‐ Mikhail Baryshnikov

The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as the food enzymes created by nature do. This results in partially digested fats, proteins, and starches that can clog your body's intestinal tract and arteries.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

The body changes shape and there's nothing you can do about it.
‐‐ Morrissey