Blues Quotes · Page 8

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

— B. B. King

It's so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that's related to the blues.

— Paul Gilbert

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

— Townes Van Zandt

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

— David Edwards

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

— Odetta

I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.

— David Edwards

Country music came from Black people - it all started with the blues and bluegrass.

— Jimmie Allen

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

— Kevin Nealon

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people…

— David Edwards

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop…

— John Lee Hooker

There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness…

— Corey Harris

The blues needs to be everything to you, otherwise it's not going to come across. That's what I think.

— Gary Moore

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues.…

— Elvis Presley

Having pop sensibilities from my past and also being a lead blues and sort of rock guitarist allowed me to bring that…

— Cody Simpson

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give…

— Willie Dixon

Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.

— William Christopher Handy

When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to…

— Pete Townshend

“beautiful blues in fine tunes; tunes of bass and brass brass knuckles clad in sweat and tears true to a son of…

— Nii Yeboah Norton Nortey

It's marvelous when you visit Tokyo: they have these clubs, and they'll have 'Motown Night' or 'The Beatles - Totally Authentic and…

— Robert Palmer

From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me…

— Johnny Mercer

I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in…

— Donovan

When Chuck Berry came along, what he did was more rock & roll than it was blues. It was more exciting. He…

— Steve Miller

I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the…

— Hozier

“You know those days when you get the mean reds?" "Same as the blues?" "No," she said slowly. "No, the blues are…

— Truman Capote

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

— Willie Dixon

I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt.

— Jonah Lomu

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

— Ritchie Blackmore

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

— Billy Gibbons

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

— Gary Clark, Jr

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

— Otis Rush

You ask any Olympian what the year after the Olympics is like - you always get the Olympic blues.

— Tom Daley

[The blues] is the antidote for sadness and depression.

— Warren Haynes

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

— Jimmy Rushing

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

— Joe Bonamassa

Blues purists may hate what I do sometimes because it's a little dirtier.

— Fantastic Negrito

“white or black. rich or poor. if you ever had your heart broken you have right to sing the blues”

— Big Mama Thornton

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

— Johnny Winter

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

— Butch Trucks

When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.

— Todd Rundgren

“Hell's a-coming and we all gotta learn to play the blues. (347)”

— Jonathan Maberry