Blues Quotes · Page 21

Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.

— Donovan

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before:…

— B. B. King

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened…

— David Gilmour

Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one…

— Hayley Mills

The blues has been in my life since I was little.

— Lenny Henry

They're great players. I'm not a Blues Traveler fan, though. I get it, but it's not for me.

— Matt Skiba

I'm interested in Qawwali and the blues.

— Devendra Banhart

I love the St. Louis Blues, it's the only team I openly root for.

— Joe Buck

The crew on 'Varsity Blues' was phenomenal.

— Ron Lester

I love blues, mellow rock 'n' roll.

— Rande Gerber

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette,…

— Robbie Robertson

I know that a man ain't supposed to cry but these tears can't hold inside losin' you would end my life you…

— Roger Troutman

I was into Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, the blues.

— Jeff Gutt

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

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

“When you scratch these guitars, they bleed.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

Blues players are around for 50 years, and that's just fine.

— Dickey Betts

It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues…

— Hugh Laurie

My writing ability all stems from the blues.

— Christine McVie

I've always seen music as colours, with basses maybe translating to dark blues, and trebles as yellows and ochres and a general…

— Goldie

I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live' and those comedians - that's really even what got me into music was The Blues…

— John Popper

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

— Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I like the style of the deVOL kitchens - shaker style with dark greys and blues, ceramic tiles and metallics dotted around.

— John Whaite

“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple…

— Dan Auerbach