America Quote by Cornel West

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration... "Joy and Pain" - sit side by…

— Cornel West

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

— Edgar Winter

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

— Eric Clapton

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

— Muddy Waters

The blues is life itself.

— Billy Gibbons

Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

— Wynton Marsalis

Blues has always been a huge part of my life.

— Steve Miller

The blues has been in my life since I was little.

— Lenny Henry

The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its…

— Ralph Ellison

Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

— Gil Scott-Heron

My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God.

— Dion DiMucci

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my…

— Robert Cray