And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
'Hairdresser Blues' was written when I was deep in a ten-year depression that I escaped shortly after recording that album. I don't… — Hunx Copy Share Image
Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people… — Big Bill Broonzy Copy Share Image
Songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day' and 'Dress Blues,' those were good songs, but the output wasn't as consistent in those days. — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
I really want to concentrate of the blues again and do it properly, which is something I feel I didn't do before. — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing… — Paul Butterfield Copy Share Image
I listened to all those blues records. They were great - Clapton, John Mayall. Then eventually I heard Genesis with Peter Gabriel,… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make… — Alan Price Copy Share Image
Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
I used to go round to my granddad's house on a Saturday morning, and we'd sit and eat our porridge and watch… — Rag'n'Bone Man Copy Share Image
“It wasn't…too long ago. But it feels like…years ago…since I felt…the warm hello of the sun. Lately things seem a little colder,… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
Whenever I was in the dressing room on my own, I'd start playing blues to myself. One night, Bob Daisley, the bass… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues… — Alberta Hunter Copy Share Image
Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about… — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
I know that a man ain't supposed to cry but these tears can't hold inside losin' you would end my life you… — Roger Troutman Copy Share Image
There's a lot of struggling and a lot of activity going on in my playing. Blues Traveler adopted that style. People will… — John Popper Copy Share Image
There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer. Many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side… — India Arie Copy Share Image
I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want… — Michael Giles Copy Share Image
I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz… — Luke James Copy Share Image
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues. — Bono Copy Share Image
Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
The social realism of ' Establishment Blues' or 'Like Janis,' are what I chose to use to express what was happening in… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life,… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
I never wore a pink T-shirt before. Blue is my favourite colour and gives me good energy. I like doing my blues… — Sooraj Pancholi Copy Share Image
You don't need the frills and thrills to make something amazing. I think that's what inspires me with the blues. — ZZ Ward Copy Share Image
I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
I prefer a heart player; I prefer someone like a blues player, like Jeff Healey. Jeff Healey I think is tremendous. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
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