Dark Quote by Cornel West

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

— Brownie McGhee

The blues is life itself.

— Billy Gibbons

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

— Ted Alexandro

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about…

— Alberta Hunter

We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

— Wynton Marsalis

The blues have hope wrapped inside them.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding.

— Willie Dixon

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled…

— Ry Cooder

There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.

— Joe Bonamassa

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

— Billy Gibbons

Blues are the songs of despair,

— Mahalia Jackson

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

— Mahalia Jackson