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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

~Edgar Winter

Topics: American As Far As Blues Concerned Contributions Far Great Great American Jazz Music

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I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

~Edgar Winter

Topics: Bland Blue Blues Bobby Charles Jazz King Like Liked More People Ray Ray Charles Sophisticated Style Tendency Toward Urban

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I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

~Edgar Winter

Topics: Almost Also Blues Certainly Classical Common Dramatic Frankenstein Fusion Had Heavy Heavy Metal Image Jazz Love Metal Music Power Primarily Rock Rocker Runs Thought Thread Through Very

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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

~Edgar Winter

Topics: American Believe Blues Contributions Jazz Music Two Uniquely I Believe I Believe That

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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

~Edgar Winter

Topics: Am Blues Definitely Heart Man Yeah I Am

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I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.

~Elizabeth Meriwether

Topics: Blues Brothers Characters Complicated Film Interesting Just Keep Like Mission People Roles Theater Think Tv Want Who Women Writing I Think

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I'm very fortunate that I really like acting, but it's not all I want to do. I love to sing. I love blues. I love jazz.

~Ella Purnell

Topics: Acting Blues Fortunate Jazz Like Love Really Sing Very Want I Love

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I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues.

~Elle Fanning

Topics: Because Blue Blues Both Bows Carpet Colours Eyes Girly Good Like Look Love Me Our Red Red Carpet Sister Very I Love

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What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Art Art Form Been Being Blues Businessmen Commercial Cultural Exploitation Far Form Grasp Itself Over Revolutionaries Rock Seem Taken

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Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at wringing texture out of the color blue than the prodigious and now prolific Mr. Scott; you'd swear that with his dazzling washes of blues and sand tones, he was inventing additional hues on the spot.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Accomplished Additional Blue Blues Color Dazzling Director Establishing He His Hues Inventing May Means Mood More Most Notable Now Out Pictorial Prolific Sand Scott Spot Swear Talent Texture Than Through Tones Working You Mr

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