Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues. — John Mayall Copy Share Image
“The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound.” — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
My first concert was Chicago and Moody Blues. I was 15 years old. — Dale Earnhardt Jr Copy Share Image
I believe I'll take off my colors for awhile / And just kick back and sing some blues. — Ray Wylie Hubbard Copy Share Image
For me, the most powerful form of music was gospel music. It led me to the blues. — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton… — Jon Tenney Copy Share Image
The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all… — Alberta Hunter Copy Share Image
I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I have a lot of analog. I think a lot of people do. There are a lot of people that are re-discovering… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who really had it hard. In… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our - anything you want to express. And it helps… — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
In September 2012, I got the blues pretty bad, so I stopped playing for a little while. I started to renew my… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
I want to speak in the tradition of rhythm and blues and soul music, but also push how it's dressed and how… — Kelela Copy Share Image
“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fact that many people are always at home to the “blues.” Whenever a fit visits them, it seems… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
“I apply the warrior energy to the blues by tapping into the ancient job of the griot class.That wasn’t a job you… — Taj Mahal Copy Share Image
For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. And that's why, when I say… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“What I can play is blues. She was never that into blues. I can salve with Lightning and Cotton, BB and Clapton… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
