Blues Quotes · Page 12

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

— Dickey Betts

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

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 base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow…

— Tyler Hilton

Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren't allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I…

— Dusty Hill

Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone...…

— Jackson C. Frank

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose…

— Alexis Korner

You're damn right, I've got the blues. From my head down to my shoes. I can't win 'cause I don't have a…

— Buddy Guy

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

— Dimebag Darrell

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

— Albert Murray

Just because you're from up north, it's not like the blues are a regional thing. It's just all about what moves you.

— Susan Tedeschi

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

As we all know, the evil of slavery and the sting of the whip have given us many things including the voice…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

It's perhaps easier to say what prog rock isn't than what it is: it's not three-minute pop songs, it's not straightforward rock,…

— Gavin Esler

I used to go round to my granddad's house on a Saturday morning, and we'd sit and eat our porridge and watch…

— Rag'n'Bone Man

Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at…

— Elvis Mitchell

The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played…

— Jools Holland

I listened to all those blues records. They were great - Clapton, John Mayall. Then eventually I heard Genesis with Peter Gabriel,…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make…

— Alan Price

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

— Eddie Griffin

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

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

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

— Johnny Van Zant

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

— Dave Van Ronk

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

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

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

— Eddie Floyd

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

— Rory Gallagher

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

— Denny Laine