Play Blues Quotes

I play blues old-timey style.

— Pinetop Perkins

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

— Herbie Mann

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

— Ray Charles

I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman

— Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

I just play blues for fun.

— Howlin' Wolf

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

— David Edwards

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

— Jonny Lang

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

— Dan Castellaneta

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

— Jay McShann

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

— Luther Allison

If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

— Eric Clapton

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

— Dexter Gordon

“Hell's a-coming and we all gotta learn to play the blues. (347)”

— Jonathan Maberry

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why…

— Howlin' Wolf

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all…

— Alexis Korner

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch…

— Junior Kimbrough

Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.

— William Christopher Handy

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.

— Brad Renfro

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants…

— Jimmy Rushing

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and…

— Koko Taylor

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests…

— Jeffrey Wright

I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of…

— David Edwards

I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who really had it hard. In…

— Chuck Berry

I'd go over to friends' houses and ask them to put on some Howlin' Wolf, and they wouldn't know what I was…

— Dusty Hill

The amazing thing about Sweets [Edison] was that he exactly spoke the way that he played! He was really unique, the one…

— Ray Brown

You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came…

— Dusty Hill

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also…

— David Gilmour

When I got a little bit older I wanted to play piano - that's all I wanted to do. I remember learning…

— Zooey Deschanel

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a…

— David Edwards

Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.

— Albert Collins

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees set on the same night.

— Peter Tork

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

— Luther Allison

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.

— David Gilmour

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

— Christine McVie

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

— Dane Cook

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

— Jay McShann

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

— John Lee Hooker

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

— Robert Cray

If I'm, you know, in that mind-set and you're just playing in a bar and it's dark and you just dig in,…

— Susan Tedeschi

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

— Miles Davis