Blues Quote by Mahalia Jackson Download Open image “Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.” — Mahalia Jackson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blues Deep Help Pit Yelling
It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . . — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about… — Alberta Hunter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing… — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang… — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands? — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when… — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
How can you sing of Amazing Grace? How can you sing prayerfully of heaven and earth and all God's wonders without using your hands? — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody… — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place. — Mahalia Jackson 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
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
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
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
Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed. — Gary Rossington Copy Share Image
My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could… — Steve Cropper Copy Share Image
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
