Blues Quotes · Page 11

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

— Eddie Floyd

I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.

— Orianthi

My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.

— Hozier

You don't understand what you're angry about as a young man. You have those young man blues.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

New crib, watch a movie. Cause aint nothin on the news but the blues.

— Kanye West

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

— Dave Van Ronk

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

— Johnny Van Zant

Just thinking of you dippin' would leave me in the blues, you would think I was crippin.'

— Anonymous

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it.…

— Jimmy Page

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

— Ruth Brown

I've always seen music as colours, with basses maybe translating to dark blues, and trebles as yellows and ochres and a general…

— Goldie

“And there ain't nothin' like a friend who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind. -- Neil Young, "Ambulance Blues"…

— Neil Young

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the…

— Albert Murray

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because…

— Alberta Hunter

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to…

— Billie Holiday

My dad was very influential with the music he exposed me to. He was really into blues and folk, so he'd play…

— Frank Iero

I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the…

— Sinead O'Connor

Are you really into pop? Are you really into old country? Blues? If you're not honest about your influences, then things don't…

— Frankie Ballard

I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm…

— David Edwards

I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music…

— Scotty Moore

The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to…

— Robbie Robertson

At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as…

— Kevin Young

I've thrown away the blues, I'm tired of being used.

— Linda Ronstadt

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

— Bill Nighy

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

— Ethel Waters

Being raise in England, we were all raised on blues and country.

— John Waite

The great thing about the blues is that it's not about male or female.

— Susan Tedeschi

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

— Johnny Winter

Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.

— Albert Collins

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

— Dusty Hill

Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose Won't you let me go down in my dreams?

— James Taylor

People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

— Etta James

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.

— Jack Conte

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.

— Butch Trucks

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

— Otis Rush

If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine.

— J.J. Cale

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

— Bruce Springsteen