Blues Quotes · Page 7

Blues has always been a huge part of my life.

— Steve Miller

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

— Elton John

If you can play the blues, you can do anything.

— Ray Charles

“Starlight is best felt at noon...”

— Will Advise

Blues is the first step to get to jazz.

— Paul Gilbert

I never had the blues; the blues always had me.

— Brownie McGhee

My writing ability all stems from the blues.

— Christine McVie

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

— Peter Tork

New crib, watch a movie. Cause aint nothin on the news but the blues.

— Kanye West

House of Blues has soul right down to the chef in the kitchen.

— Michael Rapino

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

— Mick Fleetwood

Steven Segal's a cool dude. He's basically a blues man. He loves playing his guitar.

— Eddie Griffin

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

— Maya Angelou

“Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?”

— David Mutti Clark

I suggest you go out and buy as many Blues albums as you can.

— John Belushi

I don't read the daily news, cause it ain't hard to figure why people gets the blues.

— Lynyrd Skynyrd

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult…

— Boz Scaggs

I'm trained in classical music, and my favourites have always been rock n' roll and blues, but I've grown up with different…

— Shruti Haasan

I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.

— Tony Todd

I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed…

— George Thorogood

I kind of got really, really into 'Hill Street Blues' when it came out. I used to leave a class early just…

— Mark Pellegrino

Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll.

— Leon Russell

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is…

— David Carson

On piano, I tend to write either gospel or singer-songwriter songs, sometimes kind of rocking blues songs. But the more heavier rock…

— Beth Hart

“I asked about the price of the guitars, reminding him that if expected me to man the cash register, I’d need to…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly:…

— Truman Capote

I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,'…

— Wynton Marsalis

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and…

— Mick Fleetwood

I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in…

— Tracy Chapman

The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed…

— Willie Dixon

There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and…

— William Bell

Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened…

— Neneh Cherry

The blues have hope wrapped inside them.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

— Bernie Taupin

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

— Johnny Winter

All blues singers are great liars.

— Lester Bangs

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

— Howlin' Wolf

The blues is life itself.

— Billy Gibbons

American blues can make you sad.

— Daniel Pearl

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

— Luther Allison