Otis Rush famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
-- Otis Rush

#Feels
A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
-- Otis Rush

#Giving #Guy #Promise
Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
-- Otis Rush

#Pain
I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
-- Otis Rush

#Country #Boys #Everyday
I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
-- Otis Rush

#Attention #Paper #Pay
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
-- Otis Rush

#Writing #Guitar #Play
Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.
-- Otis Rush

#New York
I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
-- Otis Rush

#Play #Guitar #Water

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.
I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
I just feel like I have a lot to prove.
I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.
If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
For something to hurt that bad, and feel so good, it's just inexplicable.
ADHD isn't a bad thing, and you shouldn't feel different from those without ADHD.

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