Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more. — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am. — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
“white or black. rich or poor. if you ever had your heart broke you have right to sing the blues” — Big mama Thornton Copy Share Image
What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to… — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat… — Jim Drain Copy Share Image
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I prefer a heart player; I prefer someone like a blues player, like Jeff Healey. Jeff Healey I think is tremendous. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
You don't need the frills and thrills to make something amazing. I think that's what inspires me with the blues. — ZZ Ward Copy Share Image
I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams. — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
What really brought out the voice that I have, my soul voice and true voice, was really not getting any work and… — Morgan James Copy Share Image
If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it.… — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
“We were in Mississippi. We’d been playing this music, and it had all been very respectful, but then we were actually there… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long; you're just sad, that's all. The mean… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
