Otis Rush Quotes

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

  Otis Rush

  Feels

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• A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

  Otis Rush

  Giving, Guy, Promise

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• Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

  Otis Rush

  Pain

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• 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

  Guitar, Play, Water

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• I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

  Otis Rush

  Writing, Guitar, Play

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• 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

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• I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.

  Otis Rush

  Attention, Paper, Pay

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• Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

  Otis Rush

  New York

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