There were a whole lot I bought every blues record I could find it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland
Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
All I'm writing is just what I feel that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection it feels good when you get one but you forget it the moment you're past it.
You know nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.
As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.
The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.
I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.
Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.
I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties which turned out to be a great musical period.
A shining isle in a stormy sea We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.
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.
Uh I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But uh I'm lucky I was just lucky that's all.
I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere then your show is probably just very bland and boring.
There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there but it's very bland and disposable.
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist they're cold and now architects want to go back to that.
The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense much like the difference between a standard sliced white bread and a crusty aromatic sourdough.
If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.
I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.
When you've tasted excess everything else tastes bland...
Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.
[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.
I like to think of bread as really bland cake.
The worst thing in the world is to be bland.
Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.
Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.
Your obstacles define your achievements and without those obstacles you're just another bland nothing.
When you come right down to it I guess I really am pretty bland.
We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.
I've always wanted to write energetic atypical sentences i.e. sentences that were not normal or bland.
The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.
I don't like the way most people dress on the golf course. I think it's pretty bland pretty boring.
Cruel but composed and bland Dumb inscrutable and grand So Tiberius might have sat Had Tiberius been a cat.
The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.
After every movie I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough not enough variation not enough interesting choices too bland.
Tell him what? Kat's a raging nymphomaniac. (Kytara) Tara! (Kat) Oh all right. She's so bland she makes plain toast look spicy. (Kytara)
I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.
Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.
Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?
I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.
How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland the mediocre and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?
He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face.
Quoth the Ocean "Dawn! O fairest clearest Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.
English life while very pleasant is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it but there is such a thing as too much couth.
You turn on the TV and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power very close to those in power.
A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.
It was a bland tranquilized life-adjusted group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.
Alcohol makes other people less tedious and food less bland and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing
So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.
Concocting a good guest list is like seasoning a gourmet sauce. Too many similar ingredients and it's bland. Too much variety in the seasoning and the result may be overpowering.
When you close the book does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations and its characters live on.
[There was] only one news channel overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was as a rule interesting in none of them.
Displaying a bland even an eerie disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.
[My muse] is in fact a woman of the world and precisely because of this hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.
When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is its narrative arts (literature film theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland sometimes in the same work.
Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back with their bland odorous breath the joyous hours that only young life knows ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.
If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it by chance be imported from France Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!
Instead of putting cheese with ranchero sauce chile is really very good for you. If you put that in you get flavoring so you're not eating bland food especially if you're used to spicy food.