Blues Quotes

667 Blues quotes by 395 unique authors

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it. — Robin Trower
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. — Fats Domino
I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that means I get… — Justin Townes Earle
I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any… — David Gilmour
From Eden is spoken from the Devil's point of view. I always loved in blues music how the Devil can be a character who walks… — Hozier
To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I… — Mick Fleetwood
I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues,… — Olivia Wilde
Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a… — Steve Lawson
I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed. — Monique Coleman
The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's… — Alan Price
There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country… — Rick Derringer
I woke up this mornin' Feelin' round for my shoes Know 'bout I got these, Old walkin' blues. — Robert Johnson
Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your… — Al Jarreau
It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees set on the same night. — Peter Tork
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music. — James Young
So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows… — Archie Shepp
You're a master on blues piano. The real deal. — Jeffrey Wright
I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal… — Edgar Winter
Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members. — Peter Tork
I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat… — William Bell
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That… — George Thorogood
Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page. — Jake Shimabukuro
I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style.… — John Lee Hooker
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first. — Van Morrison

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