Blues Quotes

667 quotes by 411 authors

When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I'd just skip back and forth… — Rodney Crowell
I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the… — Randy Travis
Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music. — Albert Collins
Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family. — Alexis Korner
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. — Alexis Korner
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. — Alexis Korner
Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to… — Big Bill Broonzy
My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man. — Big Bill Morganfield
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. — Brownie McGhee
I still like to play the blues more than anything else. — Christine McVie
I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart. — Eddie Kirkland
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. — Edgar Winter
People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies. — Etta James
I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I… — John Lee Hooker
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now… — John Lee Hooker
I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues. — Johnny Winter
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound.… — Johnny Winter
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues. — Johnny Winter
The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad. — Leon Redbone
With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump. — Louis Jordan

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