If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go. — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues. — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do 'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues. — Eddie Cochran Copy Share Image
I never build myself us. I let the people do that. I'm the most laid-back person, and I let them build me… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records. — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and… — Lykke Li 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 -… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with Norah Jones and Amy Winehouse, Etta James. I'm really into blues and R&B type of stuff, '90s hip-hop; that's… — Billie Lourd Copy Share Image
You stopped by my house first, Mister Blues and blues, you didn't do me much good. You, should have heard me beggin.… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to… — Robbie Robertson 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
I know that for category purposes, people have to lump certain artists in with genre that they make their name or their… — Joe Louis Walker 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
If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light… — Muddy Waters 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
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'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything. — Orianthi Copy Share Image
The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it. — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I don't differentiate between country, rock, blues, jazz, it doesn't mean anything to me. — Everlast Copy Share Image
I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. — Johnny Ramone Copy Share Image
Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion. — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues. — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
