Bad life Quote by Ike Turner

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

— Ted Alexandro

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about…

— Alberta Hunter

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back…

— Ronnie Wood

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on…

— Tom Waits

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

— Odetta

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

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 so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled…

— Ry Cooder

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten…

— Big Bill Broonzy

I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

Blues is a very physical music.

— Hozier