The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots… — Geezer Butler Copy Share Image
Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse. — Donovan Copy Share Image
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs. — Earl King Copy Share Image
I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues.… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
I want to do a romantic comedy that nobody thought I could do. And then do a comedy with Dan Aykroyd that… — John Belushi Copy Share Image
These is old blues / and I sing em like any woman do. / These the old blues / and I sing… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,'… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago,… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp...… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an album of… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
If you are feeling some December blues, or even depression, don't fight it. Instead, do something for yourself. Be reflective. Let the… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
Not that I got bored with it all, or I didn't like the people in The Moody Blues. I just wanted to… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
I love the blues. I love rock. I love classic rock. I love country. All types of music I can appreciate. — Elias Copy Share Image
If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that… — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
I never build myself us. I let the people do that. I'm the most laid-back person, and I let them build me… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love… — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
All of my solos are blues based. Even though a lot of my songs get into pop, I wind up going back… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
For a musician to be good, he has to have humanity and care about the other guy. And as for blues -… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele… — Lennie James Copy Share Image
My father and mother listened to oldies, from be-bop and swing music to - I hate to admit it, but - Barry… — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
You stopped by my house first, Mister Blues and blues, you didn't do me much good. You, should have heard me beggin.… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with Norah Jones and Amy Winehouse, Etta James. I'm really into blues and R&B type of stuff, '90s hip-hop; that's… — Billie Lourd 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 -… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records. — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends, they think I grew up to rock and roll, but I didn't. I grew up to Hank… — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
