Blues Quote by Donovan Download Open image “Blues and jazz are such a root to music.” — Donovan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blues Jazz Music Root
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music. — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Most people think that I heard Bob Dylan first and got a cap and harmonica. Really, it was Woody Guthrie. He was so influential. — Donovan Copy Share Image
I have always just experimented, and I come from a very ancient, acoustic root. It was very hard to put a finger on me. — Donovan Copy Share Image
I found in Rick Rubin a kindred soul. When I visited his home and looked in his library, I saw he was reading the… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic… — Donovan Copy Share Image
In 1968, I bought a 114-foot yacht, built in 1946, and lived on the Greek islands for a while. We had an extraordinary time… — Donovan Copy Share Image
My particular space has always been quite unique in popular music. I have a background in R&B and hard rock and straight pop, but… — Donovan Copy Share Image
Celebrities can suffer a horrible loneliness even though they have millions of fans. I started doing meditations because I realized that a spiritual path… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately… — Donovan Copy Share Image
The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways. — Donovan Copy Share Image
I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jimmy Page gave me the MOJO Maverick award. I got… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I love Las Vegas, but I never get a chance to play a club like the House of Blues. I guess we've graduated to… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long… — John Hunter Copy Share Image
James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed. — Gary Rossington Copy Share Image
My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could… — Steve Cropper Copy Share Image
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
