Blues Quotes

667 Blues quotes by 395 unique authors

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out… — Jelly Roll Morton
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd… — Fats Waller
To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them… — Geezer Butler
Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are… — Mick Taylor
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially… — Mick Taylor
The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues — Mick Taylor
Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and… — Alan Freed
Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to the… — Steve Stockman
I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to… — Nick Lowe
Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues — Gram Parsons
A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough… — Paul Butterfield
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. — Adrian Mitchell
Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix. — Eddie Money
The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please… — Jimmy Rushing
If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record. — Jimmy Rushing
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure… — Jimmy Rushing
I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him. — Jay McShann
My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues. — Jay McShann
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired. — Steven Bochco
Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared… — Steven Bochco
This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I can't wait… — Rick Derringer
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin! — Miles Davis
I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect. — Luther Allison
There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them. — Richard Thompson
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now. — Ruth Brown

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