Blues Quotes · Page 15

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

— Langston Hughes

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

— Ry Cooder

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

— Jon Bon Jovi

Our love is nothing but the blues, baby, how blue can you get?

— BB King

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

— Cornel West

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

— Oscar Isaac

I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.

— Joe Bonamassa

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage…

— John Lee Hooker

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

— Keith Richards

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in…

— Lisa Marie Presley

I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.

— Denny Laine

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were…

— Joe Bonamassa

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is…

— Gillian Flynn

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to…

— Bonnie Raitt

I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight…

— Diane Sawyer

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew…

— Jack White

When I first started playing, I plunked away just like everyone else. During the Sixties I played in a blues band for…

— Allan Holdsworth

In the same way I wanted to learn how to play poker, I've always kind of been into the blues. It just…

— Ryan Fleck

In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who…

— Chris Carmack

Whenever I sing blues from the '50s or the kind of blues that you might have heard Eric Clapton or Duane Allman…

— Michael McDonald

I knew Paul when he was in the Beatles. We did the second Beatles British tour with the Moody Blues. And we…

— Denny Laine

It's true that when I was younger and I first got interested in music, I used to read books about the Stones…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Because we grew up in Australia, to find information about a lot of blues guys, I used to go to the library…

— Angus Young

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

— Ronnie Wood

I don't differentiate between country, rock, blues, jazz, it doesn't mean anything to me.

— Everlast

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

— Kevin Nealon

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

— Willie Dixon

Country music came from Black people - it all started with the blues and bluegrass.

— Jimmie Allen

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

— Odetta

I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.

— David Edwards

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

— B. B. King

It's so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that's related to the blues.

— Paul Gilbert

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

— Townes Van Zandt

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

— David Edwards

“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much

— Tim Kasher

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

— Nick Cave

I've been writing everything from pop to country to blues - just a mixed bag of everything.

— Uncle Kracker

I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

— Hozier