Blues Quotes · Page 8

Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.

— Elvin Bishop

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah,

— Townes Van Zandt

I like blue a lot, and greens. Earthy blues and greens.

— Lee DeWyze

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

— Muddy Waters

The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are.

— Son House

Blues players are around for 50 years, and that's just fine.

— Dickey Betts

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

— Henry Rollins

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

— Steven Tyler

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people…

— Big Bill Broonzy

'Hairdresser Blues' was written when I was deep in a ten-year depression that I escaped shortly after recording that album. I don't…

— Hunx

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go…

— Keith Richards

R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid…

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

Every time I see you walking by, I cannot breathe but you don't notice me, but in time you will. I must…

— Roger Troutman

“Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin…

— Mitch Albom

Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or…

— Kevin Young

I began writing with Mike Pinder and eventually we went on to form a new band called The M&B, which later became…

— Denny Laine

When the blues came out, it was something pure and undefined, but when all these white groups got hold of it, it…

— Genesis P-Orridge

The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is…

— Bonnie Raitt

When we were starting, the only old guys you'd see on stage were blues guys. They played every night, feast or famine,…

— Jim Kerr

The first thing I heard was spiritual music, which was imbedded. The second thing I heard was swing. And shortly, along with…

— Chuck Berry

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression…

— Robert Cray

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal…

— Yael Naim

I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there,…

— Mose Allison

Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That…

— Buddy Guy

I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless.

— John Seagall

If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

— Buddy Guy

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

— Vikrant Parsai

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

— Michael T. Weiss

“Rats! It's rainy outside, And to be a good fella Invite a smile so wide Nobody needs umbrella!”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

— Albert Collins

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

— Jason Momoa

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

— Izzy Stradlin

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

— L'Wren Scott

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

— Duke Ellington

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

— Eddie Vedder

My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God.

— Dion DiMucci

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.

— Ringo Starr

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

— Etheridge Knight

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

— Anonymous

I've thrown away the blues, I'm tired of being used. When Will I Be Loved?

— Linda Ronstadt