Blues Quotes

667 Blues quotes by 395 unique authors

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues. — Jon Bon Jovi
I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. — Kesha
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. — B B King
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see… — B B King
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz… — B B King
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. — Mark Knopfler
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. — David Lynch
The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and… — Wynton Marsalis
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain… — Wynton Marsalis
I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the… — Wynton Marsalis
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in… — Wynton Marsalis
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in… — John Mayer
I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. — John Mayer
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. — John Mayer
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the… — John McLaughlin
I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix… — Marisa Miller
Hearing the blues changed my life. — Van Morrison
Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues. — Willie Nelson
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. — Jack Nicholson
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown. — Gary Oldman
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. — Jimmy Page
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of… — Robert Plant
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I… — Elvis Presley
I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for… — Bonnie Raitt
I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House. — Bonnie Raitt

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