Blues Quotes · Page 16

You'll be with me every morning, Mister Blues. You'll be here every night and every noon.

— Buddy Guy

You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.

— Son House

I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.

— Redfoo

Blues Traveler has a very heavy bottom and that's what makes us have such power.

— John Popper

By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

— Hozier

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

— Maurice Gibb

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

— Count Basie

I cross-dressed as the judge in 'Hill Street Blues,' you know.

— Jeffrey Tambor

It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues…

— Hugh Laurie

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

— David Lynch

It's been a while since I watched the tube cause like a crip said: I got way too many blues for any…

— Kanye West

I listen to all kinds of music myself; it can range from practically anything: Opera, Jazz, to Blues, good Pop, just about…

— Colm Wilkinson

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by…

— Mick Taylor

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.

— Al Jourgensen

There's a lot of unreleased blues stuff I did with the Apollo Theater musicians, and there was of experimenting going on for…

— Dion DiMucci

Paul and I were friends, the Moody Blues toured with the Beatles on the second British tour. That developed into me working…

— Denny Laine

Someone told me once that blues is like whiskey. They keep whiskey in the barrel for so many years, and then they…

— Buddy Guy

New Orleans is just so full of culture in the music content - blues, folk. I was introduced to a lot of…

— Luke James

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me…

— Charlie Haden

I always loved to sing, and my mom was always doing musical theater, and my dad was always with his acoustic guitar…

— Susan Tedeschi

No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean…

— Audrey Hepburn

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested…

— Todd Rundgren

There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to…

— Robert Christgau

I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't…

— John Lee Hooker

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

— Jay McShann

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

— Mahalia Jackson

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

— Muddy Waters

From the richest to the poorest, and the smartest to the dumbest, everyone knows the blues.

— Everlast

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

— Henry Rollins

If it ain't about what's real, what's happenin' right now, it ain't the blues.

— Chris Thomas King

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

— Dan Castellaneta

I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.

— Elton John

The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

— Keanu Reeves

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

— Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

— Leon Redbone

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

— Steve Cropper

I believe I'll take off my colors for awhile / And just kick back and sing some blues.

— Ray Wylie Hubbard

For me, the most powerful form of music was gospel music. It led me to the blues.

— Susan Tedeschi

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

— Robert Quine

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Big time blues and music city. It's always been in my bloodline.

— Lou Williams