Blues Quotes · Page 15

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

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

— Albert Collins

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

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

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

— John Waite

I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton…

— Jon Tenney

I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it.

— J. J. Cale

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all…

— Alberta Hunter

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear…

— Angus Young

I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.

— Fantastic Negrito

Some people have these small, positive schemes for survival, a kind of strength that I am attracted to, maybe because I'm prone…

— Debra Granik

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened…

— David Gilmour

I figured, if someone wants to do classical music, or blues, or jazz, they move to an area where that's popular, and…

— Jimmie Allen

The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they…

— Walter Kirn

“They say that you need to ride the rails for a while to understand the traveling blues. They're wrong. To understand the…

— Lee Child

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone…

— B. B. King

Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close…

— Billy Gibbons

“You know those days when you get the mean reds?" "Same as the blues?" "No," she said slowly. "No, the blues are…

— Truman Capote

When Chuck Berry came along, what he did was more rock & roll than it was blues. It was more exciting. He…

— Steve Miller

I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the…

— Hozier

From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me…

— Johnny Mercer

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

— Mark Knopfler

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

— John Lee Hooker

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

— David Gilmour

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

— Luther Allison

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

— Nina Simone

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

— B. B. King

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

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Jack Nicholson

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

— Peter Tork

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

— J.J. Cale

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

— Eddie Money

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

— Ruth Brown

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

— Willie Dixon

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

— Robin Trower

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

— William H. Gass

Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had.

— Robert Johnson