Blues Quotes · Page 13

I love the St. Louis Blues, it's the only team I openly root for.

— Joe Buck

Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas.

— Dusty Hill

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

— Eddie Vedder

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

— Izzy Stradlin

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

— L'Wren Scott

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

— Duke Ellington

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

— Jason Momoa

Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

— Albert Collins

For a musician to be good, he has to have humanity and care about the other guy. And as for blues -…

— Harry Dean Stanton

My father and mother listened to oldies, from be-bop and swing music to - I hate to admit it, but - Barry…

— Ivan Moody

My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele…

— Lennie James

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to…

— B. B. King

All of my solos are blues based. Even though a lot of my songs get into pop, I wind up going back…

— Orianthi

My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one.

— Chris Rea

Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the…

— Joe Morton

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

— Nina Simone

I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it…

— Gary Allan

The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could…

— Joe Perry

If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that…

— B. B. King

There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light…

— Muddy Waters

I'm into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school... whatever... pop. If it's really good, I like it. I don't…

— Toby Keith

If there is a blues song, it just goes in one ear and out the other. But other than that, if it…

— Fred Armisen

I used to sing spirituals when I thought that this was the thing I wanted to do but somehow or another, when…

— BB King

You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came…

— Dusty Hill

You can't have rosy thoughts about the future if your mind is full of the blues about the past.

— Vikrant Parsai

I will argue with anyone in New York: we have the best pizza in Chicago and the best blues.

— Michael T. Weiss

“Rats! It's rainy outside, And to be a good fella Invite a smile so wide Nobody needs umbrella!”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

— Steven Tyler

I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless.

— John Seagall

If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

— Buddy Guy

Lately i've been thinkin', baby all the ways I can make you happy and tonight I'm gonna try.

— Roger Troutman

I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.

— Iggy Pop

There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.

— Richard Thompson

I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.

— Angus Young

The R&B will always prevail. It will always last. The blues will always last.

— Wilson Pickett

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

— Anonymous

I've thrown away the blues, I'm tired of being used. When Will I Be Loved?

— Linda Ronstadt

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

— Mahalia Jackson

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.

— Ringo Starr

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

— Etheridge Knight