Couple Quote by Buddy Guy

American blues can make you sad.

— Daniel Pearl

I was singing the blues when I was six. Kind of sad, eh?

— Harry Dean Stanton

Whenever I was in the dressing room on my own, I'd start playing blues to myself. One night, Bob Daisley, the bass player, came…

— Gary Moore

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,'…

— Buddy Guy

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 is about…

— Alberta Hunter

Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical…

— B. B. King

Blues are the songs of despair,

— Mahalia Jackson

“You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the saddest kind of blues…

— Ken Grimwood

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People…

— Etta James

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And…

— John Lee Hooker

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

— Brownie McGhee

I'm a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn't generally what I do. I'm a I'll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.

— Coy Bowles