Blues Quotes · Page 13

I kept playing blues-based music all during the 1980s, and it was tough.

— Rory Gallagher

My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.

— James Taylor

“Let the blue of the sky and ocean take your blue away when you feel blue”

— Munia Khan

I was singing the blues when I was six. Kind of sad, eh?

— Harry Dean Stanton

When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.

— Todd Rundgren

“Hell's a-coming and we all gotta learn to play the blues. (347)”

— Jonathan Maberry

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

— Butch Trucks

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

— Johnny Winter

Just because you're from up north, it's not like the blues are a regional thing. It's just all about what moves you.

— Susan Tedeschi

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

— Albert Murray

I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

— Dimebag Darrell

You're damn right, I've got the blues. From my head down to my shoes. I can't win 'cause I don't have a…

— Buddy Guy

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really…

— Mick Taylor

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a…

— Sammy Hagar

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am…

— John Hunter

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always…

— Stephen Stills

I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done…

— Robert Palmer

What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over…

— Ellen Willis

“You hear lots of notes, don’t you? Some have a major sound. Some have a minor sound. But there’s not one blue…

— David Mutti Clark

I met Paul Kossoff for the first time when I was playing in the back of a pub room in Finsbury Park…

— Paul Rodgers

From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone before - whether…

— Jimmy Page

I loved the Rolling Stones. I heard a little bit of country music creeping around the edges of some of their songs.…

— Marty Stuart

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the…

— John Lee Hooker

According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The…

— Willie Dixon

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

— Amiri Baraka

The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude.

— Brownie McGhee

Blues purists may hate what I do sometimes because it's a little dirtier.

— Fantastic Negrito

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

— Joe Bonamassa

“white or black. rich or poor. if you ever had your heart broken you have right to sing the blues”

— Big Mama Thornton

[The blues] is the antidote for sadness and depression.

— Warren Haynes

You ask any Olympian what the year after the Olympics is like - you always get the Olympic blues.

— Tom Daley

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

— Otis Rush

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

— Jimmy Rushing

I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt.

— Jonah Lomu

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

— Billy Gibbons

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

— Ritchie Blackmore

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

— Gary Clark, Jr

I've only dyed my hair blond once, after 'Varsity Blues.'

— James Van Der Beek

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

— Willie Dixon

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do 'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

— Eddie Cochran