The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from. — Izzy Stradlin Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown. — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me. — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young,… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues -… — Justin Hayward Copy Share Image
There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
There's a lot of struggling and a lot of activity going on in my playing. Blues Traveler adopted that style. People will… — John Popper Copy Share Image
I know that a man ain't supposed to cry but these tears can't hold inside losin' you would end my life you… — Roger Troutman Copy Share Image
I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer. Many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side… — India Arie Copy Share Image
People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues… — Alberta Hunter Copy Share Image
Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression… — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very… — Lauren Worsham Copy Share Image
The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
“The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart. — Eddie Kirkland Copy Share Image
Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed. — Gary Rossington Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso. — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had. — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it. — Robin Trower Copy Share Image
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now. — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going. — B. B. King Copy Share Image
