Blues Quote by David Edwards

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

— 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

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…

— Shawn Amos

I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

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

— Ted Alexandro

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

— John Lee Hooker

Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the…

— Wynton Marsalis

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the…

— Charles Burnett

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

— Jimmy Rushing

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing…

— Ruth Brown

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

— Jimi Hendrix