Blues Quotes

667 Blues quotes by 395 unique authors

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of… — Albert Murray
It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole squad did it.… — Unknown Author
The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. — Bill Medley
I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues. — Georgia Holt
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled… — Walter Kirn
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. — David Edwards
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of… — Jonathan Tropper
The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to… — Robbie Robertson
Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk, which… — Neneh Cherry
I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner... And at the other end… — Brad Paisley
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz… — Yael Naim
I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock… — Ellen Willis
A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself. — Jim Drain
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they… — August Wilson
When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think the… — Justin Hayward
The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals. — Lykke Li
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker,… — Alvin Lee
My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big… — Alvin Lee
I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more… — Mick Ralphs
The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most… — Shawn Amos
Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind. — Shawn Amos
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I… — Kiesza
The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe,… — Christine McVie
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of… — Alan Lomax

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