Blues Quotes

667 quotes by 395 authors

I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix… — Marisa Miller
Hearing the blues changed my life. — Van Morrison
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues. — Willie Nelson
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. — Jack Nicholson
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown. — Gary Oldman
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. — Jimmy Page
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of… — Robert Plant
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I… — Elvis Presley
I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for… — Bonnie Raitt
I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House. — Bonnie Raitt
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age. — Bonnie Raitt
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture -… — Bonnie Raitt
I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues… — Bonnie Raitt
I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived,… — Bonnie Raitt
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk… — Bonnie Raitt
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part… — Bonnie Raitt
I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done… — Lou Rawls
I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed by close-harmony groups.… — John C. Reilly
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music. — Keith Richards
Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made… — Keith Richards

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