Quote by Gillian Flynn

“No.” I folded in on myself, ignoring my meal, projecting glumness. That was another of my mom’s words: glum. It meant having the blues…

— Gillian Flynn

“He already had a sense of the ways in which white blues fans were unduly aroused by the supreme otherness of black, prewar blues…

— Amanda Petrusich

“And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.”

— David Mutti Clark

“The blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible.…

— Truman Capote

“As far as we were concerned, we were just a blues band that had decided to write some scary music.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

“We were in Mississippi. We’d been playing this music, and it had all been very respectful, but then we were actually there sniffing it.…

— Keith Richards

“I've had the blues for twenty-four years.”

— Gillian Flynn

“You know those days when you get the mean reds?" "Same as the blues?" "No," she said slowly. "No, the blues are because you're…

— Truman Capote

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

— John Lee Hooker

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

— Albert Murray

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

— Billy Gibbons

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

— Howlin' Wolf