Blues Quote by Ma Rainey

The blues is life itself.

— Billy Gibbons

Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

— Albert Collins

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

— Mahalia Jackson

No matter what you got, the blues is there

— John Lee Hooker

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on…

— Tom Waits

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

— Dion DiMucci

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

— Muddy Waters

All music is the blues. All of it.

— George Carlin

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

— Herbie Mann

The blues needs to be everything to you, otherwise it's not going to come across. That's what I think.

— Gary Moore

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

— Howlin' Wolf

I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's…

— Wynton Marsalis