Blues Quotes · Page 6

Doo-wop was full of blues for me.

— Dion DiMucci

My big brother blues a.k.a. protoman

— Rock Light

Blues are the songs of despair,

— Mahalia Jackson

“Blues, içine siyah girmiş mavidir.”

— Neldan Osmancık

I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.

— Anand Mahindra

Get rhythm when you get the blues.

— Johnny Cash

Hearing the blues changed my life.

— Van Morrison

“The Bluesis the roots of all American music.”

— Willie Dixon

Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.

— Shawn Amos

I can sing the blues and I have sung the blues. I feel it internally when I'm singing.

— Gregory Porter

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

— Maurice Gibb

An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.

— George Wein

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

— John Lee Hooker

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

— Jay McShann

Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.

— Elvin Bishop

I like blue a lot, and greens. Earthy blues and greens.

— Lee DeWyze

We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep…

— Miles Davis

“I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and…

— Petek Kabakci

My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane,…

— Frederick Lenz

Long my days and dark my nights. Tick tock of the clock with the lights up bright. Shades of the blues to…

— Robben Ford

'Hairdresser Blues' was written when I was deep in a ten-year depression that I escaped shortly after recording that album. I don't…

— Hunx

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go…

— Keith Richards

R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid…

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

Songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day' and 'Dress Blues,' those were good songs, but the output wasn't as consistent in those days.

— Jason Isbell

“John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe,…

— Zora Neale Hurston

James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And…

— Charles Bradley

I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think…

— Vivian Campbell

Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. .…

— Martin Scorsese

“Night after night on starry wings Night lovers soared so high Miles apart, across the oceans Their love forgot to sigh In…

— Munia Khan

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple…

— Dan Auerbach

I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned…

— Don McLean

My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father…

— Alvin Lee

Wild women don't get the blues.

— Ida Cox

I haven't lost my blues roots.

— Christine McVie

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

— David Gilmour

Put yourself in my shoes, cruise through my blues

— Meunknown

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

— Chuck Berry

I play blues old-timey style.

— Pinetop Perkins

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

— Bob Livingston

Blues was made for the recessed.

— Eric Burdon