I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm… — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really… — Alex Clare Copy Share Image
You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
I had always been a jazz fan - Django Reinhardt, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, the early George Benson. And I… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be… — Jim Sullivan Copy Share Image
My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul. — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life. — Lewis Gordon Copy Share Image
Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming… — Merry Clayton Copy Share Image
The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all… — Alberta Hunter Copy Share Image
I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton… — Jon Tenney Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I figured, if someone wants to do classical music, or blues, or jazz, they move to an area where that's popular, and… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better… — Charlie Rich Copy Share Image
For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level. — Scott Henderson Copy Share Image
I think there's no limit on what I've really spoken on in terms of my perspective on my blues as a woman… — Raye Copy Share Image
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed… — Charlie Siem Copy Share Image
You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
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