“Written on the wall behind them was: 'Blues for the body, food for the soul.” — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say. — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
“white or black. rich or poor. if you ever had your heart broke you have right to sing the blues” — Big mama Thornton Copy Share Image
I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am. — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues. — Elizabeth Jagger Copy Share Image
What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“A real musician ain’t gonna choose his own guitar like an evil master choosing his slave. The guitar will choose his master… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I prefer a heart player; I prefer someone like a blues player, like Jeff Healey. Jeff Healey I think is tremendous. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
You don't need the frills and thrills to make something amazing. I think that's what inspires me with the blues. — ZZ Ward Copy Share Image
I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat… — Jim Drain Copy Share Image
Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues. — Bono Copy Share Image
My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman… — Charlie Wilson Copy Share Image
I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a nanosecond kind of listener,… — Jason McCoy Copy Share Image
I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we… — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
“David’s mouth dripped open slowly. He stood with his heels dug into my carpet, a dashed hope, a broken dream. No amount… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever i find… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“After we became a couple, she composed our time together. She planned days as if they were artistic events. One afternoon we… — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
“To be sure, rock n' roll is usually a flagrant commercialization of rhythm & blues, but the music in many cases depends… — Imamu Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones Copy Share Image
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration... "Joy and Pain" - sit… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
