You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music. — Logic Copy Share Image
When you're 12 and, you know, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're playing blues,… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre. — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite films are musicals, like 'Walk the Line,' 'The Rose' and 'Lady Sings the Blues.' I just love the… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
I'm very fortunate that I really like acting, but it's not all I want to do. I love to sing. I love… — Ella Purnell Copy Share Image
Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants… — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
Is there one blues guy who was the most sophisticated and influential, like Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong in jazz? Was it… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Ray grew up in Chicago so he had the blues, Muddy Waters and all that. He also had classical training. That was… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist.… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
I tend not to spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. If you say, 'Oh, I did 'Hill Street… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“I asked about the price of the guitars, reminding him that if expected me to man the cash register, I’d need to… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly:… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's… — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters… — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
I listen to lots of blues records and some of them are funny. BB King's 'How Blue Can You Get' is hilarious. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time. — Linda Barnes Copy Share Image
The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me. — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
Even though I was a rock 'n' roll fan, hearing the raw blues was like listening to music on a much deeper… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
The first time I met the blues People, you know I was walkin' down through the woods. Yes, the first time I… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
“When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.” — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I know that Filipinos will enjoy 'Gangnam Blues' because it has a universal message that will resonate with everyone. — Lee Min-ho Copy Share Image
The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life. — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth.… — Koko Taylor Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it… — Bob Mould Copy Share Image
I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them... So you have a… — Phil Rizzuto Copy Share Image
Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly. — Brad Renfro Copy Share Image
The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
Rhythm and blues is about what life is, it's about being able to talk heartbreak and understanding that people go through it,… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
My roots are in everything from doo-wop and blues to the Four Freshman and the Beach Boys and jazz and electronica. But… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
“The guitar breathed. It inhaled and exhaled, and music filled the shop as the instrument picked the heartbreak of generations.” — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
