Feels Quote by Mick Fleetwood

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled…

— Ry Cooder

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

— Ted Alexandro

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up…

— Billie Holiday

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

The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our - anything you want to express. And it helps you get…

— Dion DiMucci

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is…

— Koko Taylor

There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness of life.

— Corey Harris

I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

— Jason Momoa

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

— Odetta

When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's…

— Ike Turner

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People…

— Etta James

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

— Dion DiMucci