White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues. — Johnny Ramistella Copy Share Image
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs. — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but… — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The Moody Blues were a blues band, so when we got discovered, we were taken to London. That's where we started to… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry. — Donovan Copy Share Image
“A real musician ain’t gonna choose his own guitar like an evil master choosing his slave. The guitar will choose his master… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
From country rock to Cajun, classic rock to Latin, and blues to Americana, I've had the pleasure of re-discovering the 'jewels' from… — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I love walking down Beale Street, which is home to countless cafes, restaurants and bars. Every bar has a live band, and… — Christopher Timothy Copy Share Image
The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a nanosecond kind of listener,… — Jason McCoy Copy Share Image
My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman… — Charlie Wilson Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, 'Book Of Hours,' there is this blues… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
The blues is like this. You lay down some night and you turn from one side of the bed to the other:… — Huddie William Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“David’s mouth dripped open slowly. He stood with his heels dug into my carpet, a dashed hope, a broken dream. No amount… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever i find… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“After we became a couple, she composed our time together. She planned days as if they were artistic events. One afternoon we… — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration... "Joy and Pain" - sit… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“To be sure, rock n' roll is usually a flagrant commercialization of rhythm & blues, but the music in many cases depends… — Imamu Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones Copy Share Image
After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
“And a ride in a hearse tells us we’re all close to that final cruise . . . when the body dies… — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
