Blues Quotes · Page 16

I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

— Hozier

I've been writing everything from pop to country to blues - just a mixed bag of everything.

— Uncle Kracker

You'll be with me every morning, Mister Blues. You'll be here every night and every noon.

— Buddy Guy

By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

— Hozier

Blues Traveler has a very heavy bottom and that's what makes us have such power.

— John Popper

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

— Maurice Gibb

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

— Muddy Waters

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

— Jay McShann

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were…

— Joe Bonamassa

I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.

— Denny Laine

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in…

— Lisa Marie Presley

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

— Keith Richards

There's a lot of unreleased blues stuff I did with the Apollo Theater musicians, and there was of experimenting going on for…

— Dion DiMucci

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.

— Al Jourgensen

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by…

— Mick Taylor

“Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.”

— Gillian Flynn

Someone told me once that blues is like whiskey. They keep whiskey in the barrel for so many years, and then they…

— Buddy Guy

Because we grew up in Australia, to find information about a lot of blues guys, I used to go to the library…

— Angus Young

There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to…

— Robert Christgau

I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't…

— John Lee Hooker

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested…

— Todd Rundgren

No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean…

— Audrey Hepburn

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me…

— Charlie Haden

I always loved to sing, and my mom was always doing musical theater, and my dad was always with his acoustic guitar…

— Susan Tedeschi

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

— Mahalia Jackson

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

— Count Basie

I cross-dressed as the judge in 'Hill Street Blues,' you know.

— Jeffrey Tambor

I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.

— Elton John

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

— Dan Castellaneta

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

— Henry Rollins

If it ain't about what's real, what's happenin' right now, it ain't the blues.

— Chris Thomas King

From the richest to the poorest, and the smartest to the dumbest, everyone knows the blues.

— Everlast

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

— Steve Cropper

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

— Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

— Leon Redbone

The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

— Keanu Reeves

My first concert was Chicago and Moody Blues. I was 15 years old.

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'

— Lennie James

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

— Luther Allison

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

— Robert Quine