Can-t-sleep Quote by John Lee Hooker

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues,…

— Jimmy Rushing

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

— Everlast

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

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

— Robert Cray

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

— Howlin' Wolf

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

— B. B. King

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 losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

— Henry Rollins

The blues, the way it's interpreted, is always a product of your environment, and so it's almost like food. You know, it's like you…

— Joe Bonamassa

The blues is like this. You lay down some night and you turn from one side of the bed to the other: all night…

— Huddie William Ledbetter

People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money.

— Muddy Waters

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits…

— Steven Tyler