Celebration Quote by Odetta

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 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 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

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

— Dion DiMucci

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back…

— Ronnie Wood

Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

— Wynton Marsalis

Blues are the songs of despair,

— Mahalia Jackson

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

All music is the blues. All of it.

— George Carlin

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think…

— Mick Fleetwood

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

— Nick Cave