The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it. — Odetta Copy Share Image
I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues. — David Edwards Copy Share Image
It's so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that's related to the blues. — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. — David Edwards Copy Share Image
As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit. — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why… — Howlin' Wolf Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country. — John Oates Copy Share Image
Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players. — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues. — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've always seen music as colours, with basses maybe translating to dark blues, and trebles as yellows and ochres and a general… — Goldie Copy Share Image
I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gave me something… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
You know, I really feel a responsibility to the music, and I teach workshops in music sometimes. And folks do come to… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Every girl is a singer. I wanted to learn the solos and play lead guitar. I would meticulously teach myself solos so… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
“Her voice had a thin thread of sadness running through it that made the song important, that made it tell a story… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
When Chuck Berry came along, what he did was more rock & roll than it was blues. It was more exciting. He… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the… — Hozier Copy Share Image
From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me… — Johnny Mercer Copy Share Image
“After we became a couple, she composed our time together. She planned days as if they were artistic events. One afternoon we… — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever i find… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration... "Joy and Pain" - sit… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“To be sure, rock n' roll is usually a flagrant commercialization of rhythm & blues, but the music in many cases depends… — Imamu Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones Copy Share Image
The blues? Why, the blues are a part of me. They're like a chant. The blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. When… — Alberta Hunter Copy Share Image
“He chose a guitar from one of the oak cabinets. Picking it with his calloused fingers, he squeezed his eyes shut and… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
“David’s mouth dripped open slowly. He stood with his heels dug into my carpet, a dashed hope, a broken dream. No amount… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
