Blues Quotes · Page 9

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

— Mahalia Jackson

I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.

— Angus Young

The R&B will always prevail. It will always last. The blues will always last.

— Wilson Pickett

There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.

— Richard Thompson

I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.

— Iggy Pop

Lately i've been thinkin', baby all the ways I can make you happy and tonight I'm gonna try.

— Roger Troutman

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

— Eddie Money

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

— Ruth Brown

I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish…

— Kevin Barry

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the…

— Charles Bukowski

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion…

— Chuck Close

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I…

— John C. Reilly

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a…

— Tim Cahill

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other…

— Fred Armisen

A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing…

— Paul Butterfield

You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar.…

— David Edwards

The instrumental stuff is a good challenge, and it keeps my fingers athletically tuned, but I'm totally happy to bang away on…

— Paul Gilbert

I've been truly overwhelmed by the good luck messages I have received from the rugby world and the fantastic support I've had…

— Matthew Rees

It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole…

— Matthew Rees

I'm a big fan of the blues, and a lot of those guys travelled all over America on Greyhound buses, listening to…

— Lenny Henry

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can…

— August Wilson

Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman.…

— Wynton Marsalis

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

— Willie Dixon

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

— Robin Trower

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

— William H. Gass

Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had.

— Robert Johnson

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

— Carmen McRae

If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues.

— Joe Bonamassa

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

— John Mayer

I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.

— Eddie Kirkland

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

— Sinead O'Connor

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

— Alexis Korner

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

— King Tuff

In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.

— Horace Panter

I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.

— Sam Shepard

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

— Steve Vai

Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.

— Gary Rossington

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.

— Butch Trucks