Synonyms for the blues
the blues

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1. the blues

   Synonyms:
   melancholy, dejection, depression, gloominess, sadness, despondency, hypochondria, dumps, megrims, vapors, low spirits, blue devils, depression of spirits, the dismals

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1. Keith Richards:

   It was all good stuff. In other words if you're growing up at 4 years old and you can sing Billie Holiday songs, you realize that 'ya, brought up on the blues without even knowing it,'.

2. Keith Urban:

   We sent over 200 people through to Hollywood, and we narrowed it down, and then even further down to get to our top 48, and those 48 guys and girls we took into the House of Blues in Los Angeles to put them into a live club setting, where the band was set up, and they got up onstage and did a song each in front of the audience in that club.

3. Keith Richards ':

   There's something incredibly powerful about the blues -- the raw blues. But then, there isn't a piece of popular music probably that you've heard that hasn't in some weird way been influenced by the blues, i think it's probably the original musical form in the world, when it comes down to it.

4. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne:

   Coffee with a friend a day keeps the blues away

5. Ry Cooder:

   The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.