People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money. — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues. — Lightnin' Hopkins Copy Share Image
I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences. — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues… — Alberta Hunter Copy Share Image
Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren't allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone...… — Jackson C. Frank Copy Share Image
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players. — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make… — Alan Price Copy Share Image
I listened to all those blues records. They were great - Clapton, John Mayall. Then eventually I heard Genesis with Peter Gabriel,… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
When I was about 16, I spent a couple of months playing at clubs in Italy with a blues band. I'll never… — David Essex Copy Share Image
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me. — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for blues and gospel, I don't think I would be who I am. — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy. — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something. — Brother Ali Copy Share Image
I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues. — Georgia Holt Copy Share Image
Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas. — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is. — Mick Fleetwood Copy Share Image
Steven Segal's a cool dude. He's basically a blues man. He loves playing his guitar. — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
I don't read the daily news, cause it ain't hard to figure why people gets the blues. — Lynyrd Skynyrd Copy Share Image
All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
