Robert Cray Quotes

• I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

  Robert Cray

  Real, Flower, Tired

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• All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

  Robert Cray

  Style, Chance, Copies

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• Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them.

  Robert Cray

  Daughter, Kings, Son

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• In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

  Robert Cray

  Order, Play, Able

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• I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

  Robert Cray

  Political, Age, Vote

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• Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.

  Robert Cray

  Jobs, Love Life, Trying

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• She was just another notch on my guitar.

  Robert Cray

  Guitar, Notches

  Song: Right Next Door, Album: Strong Persuader

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• Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.

  Robert Cray

  Fall, Infidelity, Midnight

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• I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

  Robert Cray

  Italian, Thai, Cooks

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• I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

  Robert Cray

  War, People, Greed

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• Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

  Robert Cray

  Canción, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

  Robert Cray

  Character, Jamaicans, Bad Things

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• I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.

  Robert Cray

  Melody

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• Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

  Robert Cray

  Politics, Lawyer, Boat

  Song: Nothin' But a Woman, Album: Strong Persuader, 1986

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