Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is. — Howlin' Wolf Copy Share Image
“Written on the wall behind them was: 'Blues for the body, food for the soul.” — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page. — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated. — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. — Kesha Copy Share Image
The social realism of ' Establishment Blues' or 'Like Janis,' are what I chose to use to express what was happening in… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life,… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
I never wore a pink T-shirt before. Blue is my favourite colour and gives me good energy. I like doing my blues… — Sooraj Pancholi Copy Share Image
Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues. — Bono Copy Share Image
I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz… — Luke James Copy Share Image
We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want… — Michael Giles Copy Share Image
The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we… — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
A lot of those early blues records and soul records were pretty much live. It was what it was, and they had… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm… — Georgia May Jagger 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“He chose a guitar from one of the oak cabinets. Picking it with his calloused fingers, he squeezed his eyes shut and… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
The blues? Why, the blues are a part of me. They're like a chant. The blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. When… — Alberta Hunter Copy Share Image
