Blues Quote by Billy Gibbons

“We must exude a sense of proportional gratitude that humankind’s exquisite texture is composed of a feeling soul and an intelligent will, which people…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be…

— Michael Giles

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.

— Brian Eno

You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The…

— Truman Capote

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

— Kevin Nealon

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

— Janis Joplin

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else…

— B. B. King

I used to go round to my granddad's house on a Saturday morning, and we'd sit and eat our porridge and watch re-runs of…

— Rag'n'Bone Man

“Nothing consoles like the blues.”

— Hanif Kureishi

The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are very honest and say,…

— Ray Charles

“That’s generally the way things go. The States has cool stuff, but we don’t know it until Europe clues us in. Like the blues.”

— J.W. Ocker

Your smile brightens my day, like no one else can, it take the blues away.

— Babloo