Blues Quotes

667 Blues quotes by 395 unique authors

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues. — Elton John
The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me. — B. J. Thomas
The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen. — Garth Brooks
You're going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you're gonna be payin' the man with your dues. You're gonna be living alone when… — Don McLean
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences. — Tim Cahill
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense… — Tim Cahill
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know… — Tim Cahill
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank… — B B King
As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit. — Kevin Nealon
I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try… — Greg Lake
Blues was made for the recessed. — Eric Burdon
The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me. — Eric Burdon
Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood. — Billy Gibbons
The blues is life itself. — Billy Gibbons
I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands,… — Ronnie Milsap
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. — Youssou N'Dour
I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that. — Harry Seidler
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad… — Carla Bley
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me. — Derek Bailey
Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so long that I take it very personally.… — Steve Burns
If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts. — Todd Barry
Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy. — Dan Castellaneta
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to… — Dan Auerbach
I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably… — Dan Auerbach
I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what… — Dan Auerbach

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