Blues Quotes

667 Blues quotes by 395 unique authors

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing.… — Billie Holiday
Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and… — Paul Westerberg
My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced… — Judd Apatow
The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together. — Tom Waits
I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it. — Morgan Freeman
I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in… — Martin Gore
I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies. — Dane Cook
I used to be a great blues singer. — Roger Daltrey
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. — Duke Ellington
I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and… — Sammy Hagar
I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.' — Kirk Hammett
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew… — Ben Harper
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. — Jimi Hendrix
The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's… — Jimi Hendrix
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues. — Jimi Hendrix
Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever.… — John Lee Hooker
Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have… — Alberta Hunter
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. — Mahalia Jackson
Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help. — Mahalia Jackson
When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on. — Mahalia Jackson
And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the… — Etta James
To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very… — Etta James
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music… — Etta James
A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that… — Joan Jett
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. — Janis Joplin

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