Blues Quotes

667 quotes by 395 authors

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about… — Lucinda Williams
When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night. — Johnny Mercer
People ask me: â€˜What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz.… — Ian MacKaye
You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose. — Chet Baker
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional… — Wynton Marsalis
Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds good… — Wynton Marsalis
When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and… — Rahsaan Roland Kirk
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels. — Ernest Gaines
It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the individuals being portrayed.… — Unknown Author
I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped… — Ronnie Spector
I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like… — Wynton Marsalis
I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm… — Jackie DeShannon
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy. — Bix Beiderbecke
I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy… — Charlie Rich
People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys. — Brian Setzer
With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in… — Brian Setzer
They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed… — Gillian Flynn
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It… — Jack White
You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're… — Jack White
See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody… — Junior Kimbrough

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