Blues Quotes · Page 7

I was just fascinated by the blues.

— Rory Gallagher

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

— Morgan Freeman

Nothing but blues and Elvis.

— Steely Dan

Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues.

— Curtis Mayfield

“I've had the blues for twenty-four years.”

— Gillian Flynn

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

— Brownie McGhee

Blues Traveler is a democracy.

— John Popper

“From the House of Blues, "Help ever, Hurt Never”

— House of Blues

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

— Benjamin Booker

I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all.

— Redfoo

I've been writing everything from pop to country to blues - just a mixed bag of everything.

— Uncle Kracker

I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

— Hozier

You'll be with me every morning, Mister Blues. You'll be here every night and every noon.

— Buddy Guy

You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.

— Son House

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much

— Tim Kasher

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

— Nick Cave

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by…

— Jonathan Tropper

Most blues guitar players don't concentrate on singing and melodies. And forget about the bridge - the bridge doesn't exist. They go…

— Joe Bonamassa

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of…

— Greg Ginn

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads…

— Buddy Guy

The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found…

— Ato Essandoh

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch…

— Junior Kimbrough

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.

— Brian Eno

When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die.

— Gregory Porter

“Blues all ’bout that blessed belief if’in you put everything you got—your heart, your soul, your flesh, your bone—if you give everything,…

— Eyre Price

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to…

— Tom Waits

There's a lot of women in blues music, lots of strong women and that sort of stuff. It's not the first thing…

— Mirel Wagner

I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gave me something…

— Jimmy Smits

You know, I really feel a responsibility to the music, and I teach workshops in music sometimes. And folks do come to…

— Rhiannon Giddens

Every girl is a singer. I wanted to learn the solos and play lead guitar. I would meticulously teach myself solos so…

— Julien Baker

I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I…

— Abigail Washburn

“Her voice had a thin thread of sadness running through it that made the song important, that made it tell a story…

— Ann Petry

I was always a closet blues player.

— Tito Jackson

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

— Stephen Stills

No matter what you got, the blues is there

— John Lee Hooker

Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

— Myrtle Reed

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

— Chris Rock

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

— Willie Dixon

Blues is a very physical music.

— Hozier

“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose