“Sometimes I bend seven or eight frets and I know where I’m going. To bend strings micro-tonally means playing across the fingerboard instead of up and down. There are 14 possible notes within seven frets. If you have a good enough ear-like Ravi Shankar or Jimi Hendrix-there are 21 steps within those seven frets. Your guitar will sound more vocal if you play like that.” -Michael Bloomfield (Guitar Player Magazine, 1971)

“Yeah, you better hear my warnin’ / I’m gettin’ madder ev’ryday / I don’t want ya to get so clean, baby / You just might wash your life away…” – Albert King (Laundromat Blues)

“Well, it’s early in the morning when my love come falling down for you / Well, it’s early in the morning, baby, when my love come falling down for you / I want you to tell me, baby, tell me what are we gonna do…” -Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Last Night)

Paul Butterfield

“I’ve got a mind to give up living / And go shopping instead / I’ve got a mind to give up living / And go shopping instead / Pick me up a tombstone/ And be pronounced dead…” -The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

 

Mike Bloomfield

“I get a constant busy signal when I call you on the phone / I get a strong uneasy feeling you’re not sitting there alone / I’m having nasty nasty visions and baby, you’re in every one…” -Robert Cray (Smoking Gun)

 

“Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery / Make me a poster of an old rodeo / Just give me one thing / that I can hold on to / To believe in this livin’ is just a hard way to go” -Bonnie Raitt (Angel From Montgomery)

 

“They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday’s just as bad…”

Godzilla

“Wednesday’s worse, and Thursday’s also sad…” -T-Bone Walker

“I don’t know! I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again!” -Bart Simpson

“Listen to the lyrics – we’re singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!” -Buddy Guy

George “Buddy” Guy

“My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. ” -Ray Charles

“What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.”

Ray Charles Robinson

“We gonna to break out all of the windows, we gonna kick down all the doors, We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long…” -Koko Taylor

Koko Taylor: Queen of the Blues

Wang Dang Doodle – (by Willie Dixon) Koko Taylor and Howlin’ Wolf

“A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.” -Billie Holiday

‎“Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that’s got his own…”
- Billie Holiday (and Arthur Herzog Jr.)