People Quote by Son House Download Open image “The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are.” — Son House ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Thinking
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
A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is. — Howlin' Wolf 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
The blues needs to be everything to you, otherwise it's not going to come across. That's what I think. — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently. — Otis Rush Copy Share Image
Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me. — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love. — Son House Copy Share Image
Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time. — Son House Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
