Blues Quotes · Page 10

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

— Nina Simone

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

— Luther Allison

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.

— David Gilmour

When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.

— John Lee Hooker

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

— Mark Knopfler

If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine.

— J.J. Cale

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees set on the same night.

— Peter Tork

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

— Jack Nicholson

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about…

— Jimmy Rushing

Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

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

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

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

— Fred Armisen

I really want to concentrate of the blues again and do it properly, which is something I feel I didn't do before.

— Gary Moore

I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days…

— Labrinth

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'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

“Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used…

— David Mutti Clark

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

— August Wilson

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

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

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

— Bruce Springsteen

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

— Otis Rush

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

— Butch Trucks

When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.

— Jack Conte

Being raise in England, we were all raised on blues and country.

— John Waite

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

— Ethel Waters

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

— Bill Nighy

I've thrown away the blues, I'm tired of being used.

— Linda Ronstadt

Just thinking of you dippin' would leave me in the blues, you would think I was crippin.'

— Anonymous

Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.

— Albert Collins

Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose Won't you let me go down in my dreams?

— James Taylor

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

— Dusty Hill

People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

— Etta James

The great thing about the blues is that it's not about male or female.

— Susan Tedeschi

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

— Johnny Winter