I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Kick back, give the blues spin. Break out the wine, forget again. Dig down deep, find my stash. Light it up, take… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together. — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
In the sixties when Paul was with the Beatles and I was with the Moody Blues, we shared the same bill and… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
I have never been in a band. But in my grand day of cabaret at Les Deux Cafes, I was doing this… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type… — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
“The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very… — Lauren Worsham Copy Share Image
I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am… — John Hunter Copy Share Image
I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
There was a rumour that I was buying Gibson. It circulated around the Internet... And I just go, 'How well off do… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
When I play 'NHL '09,' I play as the Blues and my guy is just terrible. I feel embarrassed when he's out… — T. J. Oshie Copy Share Image
In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
I think once I had lived life, once I had failed enough in this lifetime and got back up a thousand times… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues -… — Justin Hayward Copy Share Image
I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young,… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings. — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues,… — Casey James Copy Share Image
I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody… — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I began writing with Mike Pinder and eventually we went on to form a new band called The M&B, which later became… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Every time I see you walking by, I cannot breathe but you don't notice me, but in time you will. I must… — Roger Troutman Copy Share Image
R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid… — B.J. The Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
