I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat… — Jim Drain Copy Share Image
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to… — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry. — Donovan Copy Share Image
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
“A real musician ain’t gonna choose his own guitar like an evil master choosing his slave. The guitar will choose his master… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
From country rock to Cajun, classic rock to Latin, and blues to Americana, I've had the pleasure of re-discovering the 'jewels' from… — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
We were very deliberately not playing 12-bar structures, blues structures, which rock musicians turned into such a cliche. We tried to... listen… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
As we all know, the evil of slavery and the sting of the whip have given us many things including the voice… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
It's perhaps easier to say what prog rock isn't than what it is: it's not three-minute pop songs, it's not straightforward rock,… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
When I was about 16, I spent a couple of months playing at clubs in Italy with a blues band. I'll never… — David Essex Copy Share Image
Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you… — Donny Hathaway Copy Share Image
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but… — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The Moody Blues were a blues band, so when we got discovered, we were taken to London. That's where we started to… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
“I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and… — Petek Kabakci Copy Share Image
We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Long my days and dark my nights. Tick tock of the clock with the lights up bright. Shades of the blues to… — Robben Ford Copy Share Image
My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different,… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers -… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams. — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Screw the mid-life crisis Go have a mid-life spa day A mid-life quickie A midlife tiramisu But whatever you do DON'T give… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
“The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before:… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
When I picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
“And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.” — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit… — Noah Gray-Cabey Copy Share Image
As you grow older, you learn to appreciate all the artistry. I'm actually on my way back to the blues, you know,… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
