If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go. — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything. — Orianthi Copy Share Image
So the blues player, he ain't worried and bothered, but he's got something for the worried people. — Roosevelt Sykes Copy Share Image
I would be on dates with guys, and the radio would be on, and if the Moody Blues song came on I… — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make… — Stephen Henderson Copy Share Image
I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. — Robin Trower Copy Share Image
Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and… — Koko Taylor Copy Share Image
Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
My wife one time got a fishbone stuck in her throat and had to fly back to L.A. from Monte Carlo to… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
If there is a blues song, it just goes in one ear and out the other. But other than that, if it… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
I'm into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school... whatever... pop. If it's really good, I like it. I don't… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
I used to sing spirituals when I thought that this was the thing I wanted to do but somehow or another, when… — BB King Copy Share Image
The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it.… — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
“And a ride in a hearse tells us we’re all close to that final cruise . . . when the body dies… — David Mutti Clark 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
“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
When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fact that many people are always at home to the “blues.” Whenever a fit visits them, it seems… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
