Blues Quote by The-Dream

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

— Ted Alexandro

Get rhythm when you get the blues.

— Johnny Cash

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

Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make you ready…

— Stephen Henderson

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

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

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

— Jimmy Rushing

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

— Nick Cave

“We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's…

— David Mutti Clark

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding.

— Willie Dixon

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

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