Blues Quotes · Page 13

You don't understand what you're angry about as a young man. You have those young man blues.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

— Jimmy Rushing

You ask any Olympian what the year after the Olympics is like - you always get the Olympic blues.

— Tom Daley

[The blues] is the antidote for sadness and depression.

— Warren Haynes

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

— Otis Rush

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

— Gary Clark, Jr

I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt.

— Jonah Lomu

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

— Billy Gibbons

One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.

— Gregory Porter

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the…

— Joe Perry

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still…

— Mahalia Jackson

I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.

— Denny Laine

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to…

— Bonnie Raitt

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is…

— Gillian Flynn

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were…

— Joe Bonamassa

Whenever I was in the dressing room on my own, I'd start playing blues to myself. One night, Bob Daisley, the bass…

— Gary Moore

I used to go round to my granddad's house on a Saturday morning, and we'd sit and eat our porridge and watch…

— Rag'n'Bone Man

With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only…

— Paul Rodgers

According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The…

— Willie Dixon

As an ardent follower of the Blues it wasn't the done thing to own up to liking The Beatles but secretly I…

— David Essex

Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown,…

— Phil Collen

“There’s something lyrical about an eternal truth. It’s a graceful riff. A free-flowing melody. Light and airy, it floats all around you.…

— David Mutti Clark

From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone before - whether…

— Jimmy Page

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

— Ritchie Blackmore

The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude.

— Brownie McGhee

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

— Amiri Baraka

When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.

— Todd Rundgren

“Hell's a-coming and we all gotta learn to play the blues. (347)”

— Jonathan Maberry

“Let the blue of the sky and ocean take your blue away when you feel blue”

— Munia Khan

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

— Harry Dean Stanton

My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.

— James Taylor

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

— Johnny Winter

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

— Butch Trucks

“white or black. rich or poor. if you ever had your heart broken you have right to sing the blues”

— Big Mama Thornton

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

— Joe Bonamassa

Blues purists may hate what I do sometimes because it's a little dirtier.

— Fantastic Negrito

“You can always tell a car door, no other door sounds quite like it. ("New York Blues")”

— Cornell Woolrich

I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson.

— Ian Brown

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

— Bill Medley