Blues Quotes · Page 4

Doo-wop was full of blues for me.

— Dion DiMucci

God made Blues right after he made woman.

— B. B. King

“ocean's snaking blues beyond the meadow”

— Cleopatra Mathis

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

This be an empty world without the blues.

— Ma Rainey

“The Bluesis the roots of all American music.”

— Willie Dixon

“Blues, içine siyah girmiş mavidir.”

— Neldan Osmancık

Hearing the blues changed my life.

— Van Morrison

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Big time blues and music city. It's always been in my bloodline.

— Lou Williams

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

— Mose Allison

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

— Luther Allison

The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

— Keanu Reeves

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

— Leon Redbone

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

— Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

— Steve Cropper

I don't differentiate between country, rock, blues, jazz, it doesn't mean anything to me.

— Everlast

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to…

— Rick Derringer

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming…

— Merry Clayton

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

— James Weldon Johnson

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry…

— Bob Dylan

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My…

— Jerry Leiber

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

— Rod Stewart

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

— Lewis Gordon

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed…

— Charlie Siem

My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from…

— Nina Simone

It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I…

— Common

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the…

— Imelda May

Life is relationships and what we're trying to do together. And please, that's what people have been singing about forever. That's what…

— Frankie Ballard

I've always been really into blues guitar. I feel like that comes out a little bit in my guitar parts: country, blues…

— Declan McKenna

That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like…

— Vince Clarke

When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that…

— Ike Turner

I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty…

— Sinead O'Connor

Get rhythm when you get the blues.

— Johnny Cash

I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.

— Anand Mahindra

I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek.

— Johnny Flynn

“Nothing consoles like the blues.”

— Hanif Kureishi

All music is the blues. All of it.

— George Carlin

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

— Eric Clapton

I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

— Langston Hughes

The blues - it's kind of like a religion, really.

— Peter Green