Blues Quotes · Page 9

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

— Mose Allison

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Big time blues and music city. It's always been in my bloodline.

— Lou Williams

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

— Robert Quine

For me, the most powerful form of music was gospel music. It led me to the blues.

— Susan Tedeschi

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

— Luther Allison

All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'

— Lennie James

My first concert was Chicago and Moody Blues. I was 15 years old.

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

I cross-dressed as the judge in 'Hill Street Blues,' you know.

— Jeffrey Tambor

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

— Ted Alexandro

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

— Earl King

To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots…

— Geezer Butler

Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse.

— Donovan

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that…

— Keith Richards

I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues.…

— Tracy Morgan

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be…

— Bonnie Raitt

I want to do a romantic comedy that nobody thought I could do. And then do a comedy with Dan Aykroyd that…

— John Belushi

I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't…

— John Lee Hooker

There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to…

— Robert Christgau

It was always going to be a blues, soul, and rock-'n'-roll thing, because those are our ingredients. That's where we come from,…

— Daniel Taylor

My parents had this massive record player in the living room, a 'blue spot grand' they called it... it used up an…

— Lenny Henry

That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to…

— Joe Bonamassa

I want to speak in the tradition of rhythm and blues and soul music, but also push how it's dressed and how…

— Kelela

It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I…

— Common

My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from…

— Nina Simone

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

— Count Basie

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

— Mahalia Jackson

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

— Jay McShann

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

— Muddy Waters

From the richest to the poorest, and the smartest to the dumbest, everyone knows the blues.

— Everlast

If it ain't about what's real, what's happenin' right now, it ain't the blues.

— Chris Thomas King

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

— Henry Rollins

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

— Dan Castellaneta

I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.

— Elton John

Blues Traveler has a very heavy bottom and that's what makes us have such power.

— John Popper

By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

— Hozier

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

— Maurice Gibb

“These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much

— Tim Kasher

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

— Nick Cave

You'll be with me every morning, Mister Blues. You'll be here every night and every noon.

— Buddy Guy