Blues Quote by David Edwards

The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what…

— David Edwards

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

— David Edwards

I can sing the blues and I have sung the blues. I feel it internally when I'm singing.

— Gregory Porter

I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs…

— David Edwards

You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed…

— David Edwards

I'd probably sit around the house and get lonesome if I didn't have something to do.

— David Edwards

I love early blues like Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf. I listened to the way these people sang, and it was just…

— Rob Halford

I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues,…

— Sinead O'Connor

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody…

— B. B. King

I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done anything like…

— Robert Palmer

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that…

— Edgar Winter

Blues is like the roux in a gumbo. People ask me if jazz always has the blues in it. I say, if it sounds…

— Wynton Marsalis