Free music, to me, is music without boundaries. It's music that... says you don't have to play a blues in three chord… — Al Green Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for guys like Gary Moore, I wouldn't exist. He not only proved that the blues could rock but it… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues. — Elton John Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players. — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
“Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used… — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the blues, and a lot of those guys travelled all over America on Greyhound buses, listening to… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole… — Matthew Rees Copy Share Image
I've been truly overwhelmed by the good luck messages I have received from the rugby world and the fantastic support I've had… — Matthew Rees Copy Share Image
Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still… — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live' and those comedians - that's really even what got me into music was The Blues… — John Popper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I listen to all kinds of music myself; it can range from practically anything: Opera, Jazz, to Blues, good Pop, just about… — Colm Wilkinson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while. — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
