Feels Quote by Janis Joplin

Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren't allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I find that…

— Dusty Hill

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard…

— Nick Lowe

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call…

— B. B. King

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

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

— Luther Allison

I can sing the blues and I have sung the blues. I feel it internally when I'm singing.

— Gregory Porter

I was singing the blues when I was six. Kind of sad, eh?

— Harry Dean Stanton

Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that…

— Whitney Houston

When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing,…

— Pete Townshend

What really brought out the voice that I have, my soul voice and true voice, was really not getting any work and being very…

— Morgan James

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

I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.

— Lightnin' Hopkins