Blues Quotes · Page 10

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

— Luther Allison

Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.

— David Edwards

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

— Maya Angelou

I suggest you go out and buy as many Blues albums as you can.

— John Belushi

“Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?”

— David Mutti Clark

I don't read the daily news, cause it ain't hard to figure why people gets the blues.

— Lynyrd Skynyrd

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

— Mick Fleetwood

House of Blues has soul right down to the chef in the kitchen.

— Michael Rapino

I'm a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn't generally what I do. I'm a I'll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.

— Coy Bowles

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

— James Weldon Johnson

I did a lot of 'NYPD Blues' and 'Law & Orders' and a couple of other ones that were shot in New…

— Frank Vincent

The blues is always there. It's going to be hard out here, but it's all right. It's all right, and that's what…

— Wynton Marsalis

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what…

— Etta James

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

— Marc Bolan

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

— Stephen Stills

From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how…

— Kathleen Battle

Not that I got bored with it all, or I didn't like the people in The Moody Blues. I just wanted to…

— Denny Laine

If you are feeling some December blues, or even depression, don't fight it. Instead, do something for yourself. Be reflective. Let the…

— Brad Feld

My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an album of…

— Todd Rundgren

'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was…

— Walter Becker

One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was…

— Sufjan Stevens

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp...…

— Eric Clapton

Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago,…

— Muddy Waters

A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of…

— George Ezra

Steven Segal's a cool dude. He's basically a blues man. He loves playing his guitar.

— Eddie Griffin

If I am going to shine in any arena, it is going to be blues and soul.

— Guy Sebastian

Zeppelin were a blues band but [also] so much more, [as were] The Stones.

— Phil Collen

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

— Neil Young

I like the blues… but I like aqua marine just as much.

— Don Van Vliet

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

— Otis Rush

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

— Herbie Mann

“You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?”

— David Mutti Clark

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

— Dickey Betts

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

— Steve Miller

I'm not committed to putting myself up for a blues guitarist, even though I love playing the blues.

— Jeff Beck

I basically have enough time and patience in my life to do Blues Traveler and one other thing.

— John Popper

The Moody Blues was very big in France, because they liked that we were basically playing blues.

— Denny Laine

Being a blues singer is like being black two times.

— B. B. King

I kept playing blues-based music all during the 1980s, and it was tough.

— Rory Gallagher