Blues Quote by Robert Johnson

The blues is a low down achin' chill,

— Robert Johnson

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

— B. B. King

“The blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible.…

— Truman Capote

The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the…

— Shawn Amos

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

— Dion DiMucci

[The blues] is the antidote for sadness and depression.

— Warren Haynes

The blues is life itself.

— Billy Gibbons

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

— Albert Murray

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

— Mahalia Jackson

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

— Ted Alexandro

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

— Stephen Stills

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

— Odetta