Blues Quotes · Page 5

“Night after night on starry wings Night lovers soared so high Miles apart, across the oceans Their love forgot to sigh In…

— Munia Khan

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the…

— Imelda May

See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the…

— Butch Trucks

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

You can't have rosy thoughts about the future if your mind is full of the blues about the past.

— Vikrant Parsai

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

When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die.

— Gregory Porter

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

— David Edwards

You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.

— Logic

For me, the most powerful form of music was gospel music. It led me to the blues.

— Susan Tedeschi

I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.

— David Edwards

“When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.”

— Bob Dylan

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

Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.

— Shawn Amos

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very…

— Kiesza

I've always been a fan of Buddy Guy as a guitarist, as well as Stevie Ray Vaughan and those blues guys. I'd…

— Chris Carmack

I will argue with anyone in New York: we have the best pizza in Chicago and the best blues.

— Michael T. Weiss

As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type…

— Benjamin Booker

I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the…

— Hozier

I'd go over to friends' houses and ask them to put on some Howlin' Wolf, and they wouldn't know what I was…

— Dusty Hill

“You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?”

— David Mutti Clark

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

— Willie Dixon

Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live…

— Lzzy Hale

I love the blues. I love rock. I love classic rock. I love country. All types of music I can appreciate.

— Elias

“So it's true: Being without Being is blue.”

— William H. Gass