Blues Quotes · Page 10

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

— Otis Rush

When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.

— Jack Conte

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.

— Albert Collins

People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

— Etta James

Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose Won't you let me go down in my dreams?

— James Taylor

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

— Dusty Hill

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

— Johnny Winter

I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days…

— Labrinth

I really want to concentrate of the blues again and do it properly, which is something I feel I didn't do before.

— Gary Moore

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or…

— Charles Bukowski

I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer. Many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side…

— India Arie

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal…

— Johnny Winter

There's a lot of struggling and a lot of activity going on in my playing. Blues Traveler adopted that style. People will…

— John Popper

I know that a man ain't supposed to cry but these tears can't hold inside losin' you would end my life you…

— Roger Troutman

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about…

— Jimmy Rushing

“Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used…

— David Mutti Clark

Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very…

— Lauren Worsham

The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually…

— B. B. King

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you…

— Jonny Lang

“The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then…

— Walter Mosley

As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type…

— Benjamin Booker

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind…

— Alan Lomax

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have…

— Al Jarreau

The great thing about the blues is that it's not about male or female.

— Susan Tedeschi

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

— Ethel Waters

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

— Bill Nighy

Being raise in England, we were all raised on blues and country.

— John Waite

I've thrown away the blues, I'm tired of being used.

— Linda Ronstadt

Just thinking of you dippin' would leave me in the blues, you would think I was crippin.'

— Anonymous

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

— Luther Allison

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.

— David Gilmour

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

— Mark Knopfler

When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.

— John Lee Hooker

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

— B. B. King

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

— Nina Simone

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees set on the same night.

— Peter Tork

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

— Bruce Springsteen

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

— Jack Nicholson

If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine.

— J.J. Cale