Blues Quotes

667 quotes by 395 authors

I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have.… — Nickolas Ashford
You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a… — Woody Guthrie
I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues. — Bill Nighy
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by… — Cornel West
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human… — Ralph Ellison
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz,… — Steve Winwood
Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors,… — Robert Cray
I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on… — Andy Griffith
To a lesser extent (they like) the whites and reds, but blues, yellows and oranges are the main bee flowers. Although there are very good… — Chip Taylor
If you donâ€™t think you have the blues, just keep living. — Buddy Guy
So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got… — Buddy Guy
Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so… — Buddy Guy
They just said, 'Roll the tape.' No rehearsal or nothing... Muddy [Waters] didn't come in and say 'I wanna rehearse.' He used to look at… — Buddy Guy
If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking. — Buddy Guy
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,' that… — Buddy Guy
I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues. — Mahalia Jackson
Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you… — Mahalia Jackson
Blues are the songs of despair, — Mahalia Jackson
I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this… — Iggy Pop
Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues. — David Bowie

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