Blues Quotes

667 quotes by 395 authors

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz… — Yael Naim
I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock… — Ellen Willis
A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself. — Jim Drain
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they… — August Wilson
When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think the… — Justin Hayward
The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals. — Lykke Li
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker,… — Alvin Lee
My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big… — Alvin Lee
I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more… — Mick Ralphs
The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most… — Shawn Amos
Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind. — Shawn Amos
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I… — Kiesza
The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe,… — Christine McVie
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of… — Alan Lomax
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers. — Eddie Floyd
But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about. — Luther Allison
But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style. — Moira Kelly
There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost… — William Bell
The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing. — Jimmy Rushing

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