Black Quote by B. B. King

Being a blues singer is like being black two times.

— B. B. King

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

— Stephen Stills

The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are.

— Son House

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

— Brownie McGhee

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

— David Gilmour

Blues has always been a huge part of my life.

— Steve Miller

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

— Herbie Mann

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

— Wynton Marsalis

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back…

— John Lee Hooker

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

— Jimi Hendrix

“He already had a sense of the ways in which white blues fans were unduly aroused by the supreme otherness of black, prewar blues…

— Amanda Petrusich

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

— Derek Bailey