Blues Quote by Everlast Download Open image “From the richest to the poorest, and the smartest to the dumbest, everyone knows the blues.” — Everlast ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blues Dumbest Everyone Knows Knows Blues Poorest Poorest Smartest Richest Smartest
The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues,… — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is. — Howlin' Wolf Copy Share Image
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money. — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even after my family moved West, I would come back to Long Island as a teenager, stay with aunts and go to the city… — Everlast Copy Share Image
If you go by that little inscription on the Statue of Liberty, the purest idea of America is complete cultural chaos. — Everlast Copy Share Image
“I've seen a rich man beg, I've seen a good man sin I've seen a tough man cry, I've seen a loser win And… — Everlast Copy Share Image
It's like, on my Instagram I post real life. My real life. And sometimes that's up, sometimes that's down. And you know I think… — Everlast Copy Share Image
My work is gonna live beyond me. My work is gonna feed my kid well beyond the day I depart this planet. That's because… — Everlast Copy Share Image
There was a few times where we felt alienated - going to, let's say, a Public Enemy show, and Professor Griff is going off… — Everlast Copy Share Image
I try to find pain and anger and hurt and write about it, and inject just a tiny bit of hope into it. I… — Everlast Copy Share Image
People faked the funk when I was young. There just wasn't a major platform to do it on. You just kind of did it… — Everlast Copy Share Image
Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun. You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on! — Everlast Copy Share Image
I would never try to do country music, but I would try to do my own version of it. — Everlast Copy Share Image
I'd be the last person to tell anybody to stay in their lane. If I had done that, I'd be on 'Where Are They… — Everlast Copy Share Image
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back… — John Lee Hooker 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
“Grits Glossary blues \’blüz\ n: nothing but a good man singing about hardship, sorrow, and the things he’s done wrong--but sake’s alive, they make… — Deborah Ford 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
I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything. — Orianthi 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
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues… — Robert Plant 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
When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image