Blues Quotes · Page 7

“When you scratch these guitars, they bleed.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

But my big thing was always the blues.

— Luther Allison

You know, Blues Traveler is its own thing.

— John Popper

I'm interested in Qawwali and the blues.

— Devendra Banhart

Blues was made for the recessed.

— Eric Burdon

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

— Bob Livingston

I play blues old-timey style.

— Pinetop Perkins

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

— Etta James

Everyone tried to be a singer other than just a player. We had four voices in The Moody Blues.

— Denny Laine

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

— Johnny Rivers

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

— Al Jarreau

They're great players. I'm not a Blues Traveler fan, though. I get it, but it's not for me.

— Matt Skiba

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

— Jimi Hendrix

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

— August Wilson

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

— Waylon Jennings

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young,…

— Nick Lowe

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people…

— Edgar Winter

When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues -…

— Justin Hayward

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the…

— Lisa Kleypas

In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make…

— Chris Rea

When I play 'NHL '09,' I play as the Blues and my guy is just terrible. I feel embarrassed when he's out…

— T. J. Oshie

I think once I had lived life, once I had failed enough in this lifetime and got back up a thousand times…

— Fantastic Negrito

Songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day' and 'Dress Blues,' those were good songs, but the output wasn't as consistent in those days.

— Jason Isbell

“John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe,…

— Zora Neale Hurston

James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And…

— Charles Bradley

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple…

— Dan Auerbach

I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned…

— Don McLean

I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think…

— Vivian Campbell

Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. .…

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Munia Khan

I'm going to make the music I make regardless and it's always going to be driven by rhythm and blues and hopefully…

— PartyNextDoor

All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.

— Steve Miller

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.

— William Christopher Handy

The blues is a low down achin' chill,

— Robert Johnson

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

— David Bowie

I used to be a great blues singer.

— Roger Daltrey

The blues has been in my life since I was little.

— Lenny Henry

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

— Donovan

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

— Barry Gibb