Blues Quote by Gregory Porter Download Open image “I can sing the blues and I have sung the blues. I feel it internally when I'm singing.” — Gregory Porter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blues Feel I can Sing Singing
It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . . — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
It's okay to sing the blues once in a while, but don't let it become your favourite song. — @efiosiugbore Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it.… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People… — Etta James Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry… — Etta James Copy Share Image
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs. — Earl King Copy Share Image
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going. — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be in circles, and I'll say I'm a jazz singer, and they have no idea what that means. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Because I am away so much, I try to establish home in people, rather than places. For example, wherever I get together with my… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Nat King Cole's lyrics were speaking to me, almost like fatherly advice, when I was listening to him alongside the console stereo player. So… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
My mother gave me the courage to pursue music as a career on her deathbed. She became very ill when I was 21. I… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I like to absorb the atmosphere and explore wherever I'm working or visiting, so I can't say there's any type of place I don't… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
It's been some surreal moments, you know from performing at Buckingham Palace to having dinner with Stevie Wonder, it's been an amazing ride. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with them. And… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument, my voice. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
How can you sing a line like, 'I've fallen out of love' when you're 18? You need to experience something of life before you… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
My part of Brooklyn has always been a very warm neighbourhood, even before I had anything going on in the music industry. When I… — Gregory Porter 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
