Blues Quotes · Page 12

“Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?”

— David Mutti Clark

Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.

— David Edwards

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

— Luther Allison

I basically have enough time and patience in my life to do Blues Traveler and one other thing.

— John Popper

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

— Steve Miller

I'm not committed to putting myself up for a blues guitarist, even though I love playing the blues.

— Jeff Beck

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

— Dickey Betts

You're damn right, I've got the blues. From my head down to my shoes. I can't win 'cause I don't have a…

— Buddy Guy

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

— Elton John

If it wasn't for guys like Gary Moore, I wouldn't exist. He not only proved that the blues could rock but it…

— Joe Bonamassa

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a…

— Billie Holiday

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world…

— Jesmyn Ward

Just because you're from up north, it's not like the blues are a regional thing. It's just all about what moves you.

— Susan Tedeschi

I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live' and those comedians - that's really even what got me into music was The Blues…

— John Popper

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

— August Wilson

When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you…

— Donny Hathaway

I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that…

— August Wilson

I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see…

— Elvis Costello

We were very deliberately not playing 12-bar structures, blues structures, which rock musicians turned into such a cliche. We tried to... listen…

— Viv Albertine

I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

As we all know, the evil of slavery and the sting of the whip have given us many things including the voice…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

It's perhaps easier to say what prog rock isn't than what it is: it's not three-minute pop songs, it's not straightforward rock,…

— Gavin Esler

“It wasn't…too long ago. But it feels like…years ago…since I felt…the warm hello of the sun. Lately things seem a little colder,…

— Jimi Hendrix

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

— Herbie Mann

“You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?”

— David Mutti Clark

I like the blues… but I like aqua marine just as much.

— Don Van Vliet

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

— Otis Rush

If I am going to shine in any arena, it is going to be blues and soul.

— Guy Sebastian

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

— Neil Young

Zeppelin were a blues band but [also] so much more, [as were] The Stones.

— Phil Collen

I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.

— Orianthi

My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.

— Hozier

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

— Eddie Floyd

I kept playing blues-based music all during the 1980s, and it was tough.

— Rory Gallagher

The Moody Blues was very big in France, because they liked that we were basically playing blues.

— Denny Laine

Being a blues singer is like being black two times.

— B. B. King

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

— Johnny Van Zant

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

— Dave Van Ronk

New crib, watch a movie. Cause aint nothin on the news but the blues.

— Kanye West