Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken. — Alexandra Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
For me, the most powerful form of music was gospel music. It led me to the blues. — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Big time blues and music city. It's always been in my bloodline. — Lou Williams Copy Share Image
But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about. — Luther Allison Copy Share Image
I believe I'll take off my colors for awhile / And just kick back and sing some blues. — Ray Wylie Hubbard Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to blues and rock n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite… — Ato Essandoh Copy Share Image
Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
As an artist, I wear many hats: musician, songwriter, producer, band member of Blues Traveler and solo artist. — John Popper Copy Share Image
When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
Paul and I were friends, the Moody Blues toured with the Beatles on the second British tour. That developed into me working… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
I had a buddy that somehow got hold of a lot of American blues records, and I'd go over to his place… — Cliff Williams Copy Share Image
My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind,… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I always loved to sing, and my mom was always doing musical theater, and my dad was always with his acoustic guitar… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
My first concert was Chicago and Moody Blues. I was 15 years old. — Dale Earnhardt Jr Copy Share Image
That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
“Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call… — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
A long time ago, you couldn't say what you mean in blues. You had to disguise it, and that's where the double… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Everybody started callin' my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playin' down… — Fats Domino Copy Share Image
There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.' — Tamara Taylor Copy Share Image
It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I… — Koko Taylor Copy Share Image
If 'Nevada' was an original for a certain scene of trans writing, 'Stone Butch Blues' is an original in literature, no qualifications. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy… — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
