The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah. — George Wein Copy Share Image
I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King. — Maurice Gibb Copy Share Image
I can sing the blues and I have sung the blues. I feel it internally when I'm singing. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them. — John Goodman Copy Share Image
I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him. — Jay McShann Copy Share Image
“We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's… — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time. — Linda Barnes Copy Share Image
I listen to lots of blues records and some of them are funny. BB King's 'How Blue Can You Get' is hilarious. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
The first time I met the blues People, you know I was walkin' down through the woods. Yes, the first time I… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
Even though I was a rock 'n' roll fan, hearing the raw blues was like listening to music on a much deeper… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
“When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.” — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me. — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
Really, it was after I got out of college that I began to get into the blues. I started going to blues… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It… — Jesse Stone Copy Share Image
“The blues are intent and watchful. “You’re trying to get me to change my mind, aren't you?” “Lilah, I constantly hope that… — Anna Bloom Copy Share Image
Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and… — David Chase Copy Share Image
The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
Isn't my music the last of the real rhythm and blues? Isn't it great? It's because of my musicians, we were weaned… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . . — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues. — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
“My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues. — Paul Dini 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
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs. — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
