Years and years ago, I sang at a blues bar with a band behind me. It was with my friend, my guitar… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult… — Boz Scaggs Copy Share Image
People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta. — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
I kind of got really, really into 'Hill Street Blues' when it came out. I used to leave a class early just… — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
I'm trained in classical music, and my favourites have always been rock n' roll and blues, but I've grown up with different… — Shruti Haasan Copy Share Image
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I travel light, but always with three key things: Passport, cash and iPod. The latter is perhaps the most key - it… — Rande Gerber Copy Share Image
The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation… — Gary Clark, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
No... the blues are because you're getting fat or because it's been raining too long. You're just sad, that's all. The mean… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
Are you really into pop? Are you really into old country? Blues? If you're not honest about your influences, then things don't… — Frankie Ballard Copy Share Image
I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and… — Elle Fanning Copy Share Image
My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me. — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll. — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is… — David Carson Copy Share Image
On piano, I tend to write either gospel or singer-songwriter songs, sometimes kind of rocking blues songs. But the more heavier rock… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
If I'm, you know, in that mind-set and you're just playing in a bar and it's dark and you just dig in,… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
I cut all my early records in Nashville, so I guess that makes me country. I call it country pop, but my… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I like the style of the deVOL kitchens - shaker style with dark greys and blues, ceramic tiles and metallics dotted around. — John Whaite Copy Share Image
I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. — Robin Trower Copy Share Image
I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
The strange thing is I can't play jigs or reels or any of that traditional Irish stuff as well as I ought… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make… — Stephen Henderson Copy Share Image
I would be on dates with guys, and the radio would be on, and if the Moody Blues song came on I… — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and… — Koko Taylor Copy Share Image
Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Y'know, you can sit in a room, practise all day, learn your scales and blaze blues riffs: it's easy to hide behind… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul. — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
