Blues Quotes · Page 12

Zeppelin were a blues band but [also] so much more, [as were] The Stones.

— Phil Collen

If I am going to shine in any arena, it is going to be blues and soul.

— Guy Sebastian

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

— Dickey Betts

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

— Herbie Mann

“You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?”

— David Mutti Clark

I don't read the daily news, cause it ain't hard to figure why people gets the blues.

— Lynyrd Skynyrd

I suggest you go out and buy as many Blues albums as you can.

— John Belushi

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose…

— Alexis Korner

Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone...…

— Jackson C. Frank

I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow…

— Tyler Hilton

Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren't allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I…

— Dusty Hill

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

— Elton John

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world…

— Jesmyn Ward

If it wasn't for guys like Gary Moore, I wouldn't exist. He not only proved that the blues could rock but it…

— Joe Bonamassa

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a…

— Billie Holiday

We were very deliberately not playing 12-bar structures, blues structures, which rock musicians turned into such a cliche. We tried to... listen…

— Viv Albertine

I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Whenever I was in the dressing room on my own, I'd start playing blues to myself. One night, Bob Daisley, the bass…

— Gary Moore

“It wasn't…too long ago. But it feels like…years ago…since I felt…the warm hello of the sun. Lately things seem a little colder,…

— Jimi Hendrix

We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make…

— Alan Price

I listened to all those blues records. They were great - Clapton, John Mayall. Then eventually I heard Genesis with Peter Gabriel,…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played…

— Jools Holland

Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at…

— Elvis Mitchell

“Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?”

— David Mutti Clark

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

— Maya Angelou

Steven Segal's a cool dude. He's basically a blues man. He loves playing his guitar.

— Eddie Griffin

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

— Mick Fleetwood

House of Blues has soul right down to the chef in the kitchen.

— Michael Rapino

Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.

— David Edwards

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

— Luther Allison

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

— Dave Van Ronk

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

— Johnny Van Zant

New crib, watch a movie. Cause aint nothin on the news but the blues.

— Kanye West

You don't understand what you're angry about as a young man. You have those young man blues.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

— Eddie Floyd

I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.

— Orianthi

My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.

— Hozier

Being a blues singer is like being black two times.

— B. B. King

The Moody Blues was very big in France, because they liked that we were basically playing blues.

— Denny Laine