American blues can make you sad.

I had a buddy that somehow got hold of a lot of American blues records, and I'd go over to his place and we'd…

— Cliff Williams

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of…

— Nick Cave

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

— Alexis Korner

I developed a passion for American blues music, and I'd buy albums from a record shop in Soho, which I played on my Dansette…

— David Essex

Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply…

— Paul Zollo

When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street…

— William Gibson

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud…

— Martin Luther

“All work and no play will make you sad and grey!”

— Habeeb Akande

I was singing the blues when I was six. Kind of sad, eh?

— Harry Dean Stanton

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

— Corey Harris

The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have…

— Walter Kirn

If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.

— John Lancaster Spalding

I want to be happy, but I always think of things that make me sad.

— Anonymous

Many times we let people bring us down, make us sad, well the things is they don't can't control they way you feel you…

— Bulumko Pantsi

“Doesn't it make you sad to know that life is not about who we are”

— John Rzeznik