Blues Quotes

667 Blues quotes by 395 unique authors

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.… — Etta James
Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues. — Goswami Kriyananda
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going. — Langston Hughes
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. — James Weldon Johnson
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human… — Ralph Ellison
You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a… — Ernest Gaines
I don't know much about contemporary music. I do have an iPod but I listen to a lot of old blues. I listen to John… — Robert Pattinson
Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level. — Scott Henderson
It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It… — Eric Clapton
People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be… — Willie Dixon
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an… — Duke Ellington
When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come… — Ray Davies
Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into… — Paul Zollo
It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting… — James A. Baldwin
There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah. — Townes Van Zandt
The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are very honest and say, 'Look,… — Ray Charles
I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues. — Lightnin' Hopkins
The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from. — Izzy Stradlin
The blues ain't nothin' but a botheration on your mind. — Unknown Author
I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big… — Brad Paisley
No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long; you're just sad, that's all. The mean reds are horrible.… — Audrey Hepburn
God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know? — Joe Cocker
I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised in it, from… — Sarah Vaughan
Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs — Michael Buble

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