“My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues. — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . . — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different. — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them. — John Goodman Copy Share Image
When I picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before:… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
“The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers -… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different,… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams. — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff,… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I remember, after my first postpartum depression, I didn't know what had happened to me. I was stuck in this gray depression… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
