It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . . — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
“The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.” — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different. — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
“I haven’t sold my soul yet – well, maybe a couple bars of rhythm and blues here and there.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Screw the mid-life crisis Go have a mid-life spa day A mid-life quickie A midlife tiramisu But whatever you do DON'T give… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody… — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings. — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues,… — Casey James Copy Share Image
“The Blues are a simple music and I’m a simple man. But the Blues aren’t a science, the Blues can’t be broken… — Johnny Ferreira Copy Share Image
My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting.… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
I am so weak over love and heartbreak. My music is rhythm and blues and with that said, the blues element of… — Adrian Marcel Copy Share Image
I feel I've had three careers in one, really. There was the 'Benny Santini' stuff; that came with a general sense of,… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters,… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I remember, after my first postpartum depression, I didn't know what had happened to me. I was stuck in this gray depression… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
