Blues Quotes

667 quotes by 395 authors

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles. — Bob Dylan
My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can… — Eric Clapton
The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source. — B B King
If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go. — Eric Clapton
It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music… — Nick Hornby
I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of… — Charles Bukowski
You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy. — Ringo Starr
Comedy is the blues for people who canâ€™t sing. — Chris Rock
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's… — Anne Lamott
No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your… — M.F.K. Fisher
We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The… — Anne Lamott
People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a… — Markus Zusak
She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted… — Nicholas Sparks
Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now… — Jack Kerouac
In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to… — Sarah Vowell
Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues. — Tom Robbins
Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues — Bob Dylan
But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If… — Joni Mitchell
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin… — Irving Stone
I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank… — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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