Blues Quote by John Lee Hooker Download Open image “The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.” — John Lee Hooker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blues Blues Meaning Blues Tells Line Blues Story Tells Story
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing. — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is. — Howlin' Wolf Copy Share Image
The blues needs to be everything to you, otherwise it's not going to come across. That's what I think. — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them. — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man,… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different. — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
I love Las Vegas, but I never get a chance to play a club like the House of Blues. I guess we've graduated to… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
“Grits Glossary blues \’blüz\ n: nothing but a good man singing about hardship, sorrow, and the things he’s done wrong--but sake’s alive, they make… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything. — Orianthi Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long… — John Hunter Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
