“Rats! It's rainy outside, And to be a good fella Invite a smile so wide Nobody needs umbrella!” — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I will argue with anyone in New York: we have the best pizza in Chicago and the best blues. — Michael T. Weiss Copy Share Image
I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless. — John Seagall Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown. — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from. — Izzy Stradlin Copy Share Image
The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll… — Luther Allison Copy Share Image
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch… — Junior Kimbrough Copy Share Image
The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found… — Ato Essandoh Copy Share Image
When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the… — Hozier 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
I'd go over to friends' houses and ask them to put on some Howlin' Wolf, and they wouldn't know what I was… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
I would hear Steely Dan on the radio all the time, and I listened to 'Aja' a lot. I mean, 'Black Cow'… — John 5 Copy Share Image
Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he… — David Hepworth 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
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
I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me. — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've thrown away the blues, I'm tired of being used. When Will I Be Loved? — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy. — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God. — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
Lately i've been thinkin', baby all the ways I can make you happy and tonight I'm gonna try. — Roger Troutman Copy Share Image
There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them. — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues. — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The R&B will always prevail. It will always last. The blues will always last. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had. — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
