Blues Quotes

667 quotes by 395 authors

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period… — Walter Becker
Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's… — Christopher Hitchens
I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away. — Garth Brooks
Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues. — Dolly Parton
I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you. — Elton John
Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues. — Elton John
The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me. — B. J. Thomas
The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen. — Garth Brooks
You're going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you're gonna be payin' the man with your dues. You're gonna be living alone when… — Don McLean
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences. — Tim Cahill
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense… — Tim Cahill
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know… — Tim Cahill
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank… — B B King
As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit. — Kevin Nealon
I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try… — Greg Lake
Blues was made for the recessed. — Eric Burdon
The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me. — Eric Burdon
Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood. — Billy Gibbons
The blues is life itself. — Billy Gibbons
I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands,… — Ronnie Milsap

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