Affirmation Quote by Wynton Marsalis

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

— Wynton Marsalis

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 blues? Why, the blues are a part of me. They're like a chant. The blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. When we sing…

— Alberta Hunter

When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then…

— Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

— Odetta

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

— Otis Rush

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

— Ted Alexandro

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

I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind…

— Henry Rollins

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