Blues Quotes

667 quotes by 395 authors

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden. — August Wilson
When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the radio, it was… — Hugh Laurie
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played… — B B King
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me. — B B King
I just play blues for fun. — Howlin' Wolf
I love Yamaha Clavinovas. I have them at home, in the studio and on tour with me. I find them ideal for all sorts of… — Jools Holland
I play blues old-timey style. — Pinetop Perkins
Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely. — Henry Rollins
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the… — Albert Murray
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. — Albert Murray
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of… — Albert Murray
It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole squad did it.… — Unknown Author
The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. — Bill Medley
I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues. — Georgia Holt
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled… — Walter Kirn
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. — David Edwards
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of… — Jonathan Tropper
The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to… — Robbie Robertson
Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk, which… — Neneh Cherry
I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner... And at the other end… — Brad Paisley

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