Blues Quotes

667 quotes by 395 authors

Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few… — Nick Hornby
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred… — D. H. Lawrence
She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your… — Ann-Marie MacDonald
You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues… — Truman Capote
You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues. — Carol Plum-Ucci
We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we… — Jon Stewart
The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed… — Heidi W. Durrow
Facinating." He broke into a wide grin. "I've discovered something, Khufu. This is not Memphis, Egypt." Khufu gave me a sideways look, and I could… — Rick Riordan
Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of… — Robert Jordan
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 side. The… — Cornel West
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged… — Ralph Ellison
Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the… — Lady Gaga
I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire. — Cornel West
Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm… — Jack Gilbert
Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a… — Toni Morrison
Once upon a time . . .â€ â€œIn the beginning was . . .â€ Thatâ€™s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history,… — Steven Tyler
Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the… — Lisa Kleypas
I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds. — David Levithan
Look at the sky. Itâ€™s not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there: lighter blue and… — Richard Curtis
All music is the blues. All of it. — George Carlin

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