Blues Quotes · Page 16

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

— Carmen McRae

If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues.

— Joe Bonamassa

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

— Sinead O'Connor

I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.

— Eddie Kirkland

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

— Alexis Korner

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

— John Mayer

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

— King Tuff

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

— Steve Vai

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

— Jimmy Page

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of…

— Alexis Korner

I think there's no limit on what I've really spoken on in terms of my perspective on my blues as a woman…

— Raye

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better…

— Charlie Rich

For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

— Scott Henderson

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed…

— Charlie Siem

You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with…

— Gregory Porter

I was a late bloomer, but I realised that people really liked it when I played blues scales and, with the piano,…

— Tim Minchin

I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in…

— Donovan

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties,…

— Robert Plant

I had always been a jazz fan - Django Reinhardt, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, the early George Benson. And I…

— Peter Frampton

Eric Clapton was such a great player. He sounds like he's Freddie King or someone like that. He plays the roots of…

— Orianthi

I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty…

— Sinead O'Connor

When I think about Oz, when he was a teenager, I'm just reminded of what an excellent blues voice he had. He…

— Bill Ward

The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those…

— Rory Gallagher

Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz,…

— Wynton Marsalis

Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.

— Gary Rossington

In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.

— Horace Panter

I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.

— Sam Shepard

You can't have rosy thoughts about the future if your mind is full of the blues about the past.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Rats! It's rainy outside, And to be a good fella Invite a smile so wide Nobody needs umbrella!”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

I will argue with anyone in New York: we have the best pizza in Chicago and the best blues.

— Michael T. Weiss

I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless.

— John Seagall

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

— Steven Tyler

If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

— Buddy Guy

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

— Jason Momoa

Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

— Albert Collins

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

— Eddie Vedder

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

— L'Wren Scott

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

— Izzy Stradlin

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

— Duke Ellington

My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God.

— Dion DiMucci