Dies Quote by Janis Joplin

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

— Janis Joplin

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

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

— Ted Alexandro

We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

— Wynton Marsalis

People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

— Etta James

I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind…

— Henry Rollins

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

— Linda Barnes

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

— Albert Murray

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

— B. B. King

When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.

— John Lee Hooker

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