Believe Quote by Jimmy Rushing

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their…

— John Lee Hooker

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

From the richest to the poorest, and the smartest to the dumbest, everyone knows the blues.

— Everlast

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my…

— Robert Cray

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding.

— Willie Dixon

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

— Albert Murray

The blues is life itself.

— Billy Gibbons

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

— Howlin' Wolf

Blues has always been a huge part of my life.

— Steve Miller

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the…

— August Wilson

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt…

— August Wilson

My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God.

— Dion DiMucci