Anything Quote by Dion DiMucci

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

— Ted Alexandro

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

— Dion DiMucci

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

A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing…

— Dion DiMucci

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

The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words…

— Willie Dixon

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think…

— Mick Fleetwood

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

— Odetta

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

— Willie Dixon

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

— Albert Murray

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

— Jason Momoa

The blues? Why, the blues are a part of me. They're like a chant. The blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. When we sing…

— Alberta Hunter