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I think the blues will always be around. People need it. — Johnny Winter

And there ain't nothin' like a friend who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind.
Neil Young, "Ambulance Blues" from "On the Beach" (1974) — Neil Young

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us — B.B. King

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues. — Dwight Yoakam

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter ... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record. — Johnny Winter

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that. — Harry Seidler

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues. — Herbie Mann

I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart. — Eddie Kirkland

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues. — Bono

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future. — Willie Dixon

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning. — Willie Dixon

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records. — Stephen Stills

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll. — Sinead O'Connor

Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky, — Mary E. Pearson

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. — Buddy Guy

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 of joyous fashion. — Henry Rollins

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. — Jimi Hendrix

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues. — Bill Nighy

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds. — David Levithan

I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues. — David Edwards

Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them ... So you have a right to sing the blues. — Phil Rizzuto

Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites. — Jonny Lang

India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in. — Kiran Millwood Hargrave

It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself — Nick Hornby

He says the blues can't drive depression clear out of a house, but they can drive it into the corners of any room where they are being played. — Kurt Vonnegut

The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we're bound. — David Mutti Clark

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. — Christina Aguilera

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory. — Muddy Waters

The crew on 'Varsity Blues' was phenomenal. — Ron Lester

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living. — Bonnie Raitt

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing. — Bessie Smith

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

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there. — Ma Rainey

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything — Bonnie Raitt

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right — Muddy Waters

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age. — Bonnie Raitt

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together. — Tom Waits

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins. — Peter Tork

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues. — Jonny Lang

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 heartbeat inside your head. — David Mutti Clark

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different. — John Lee Hooker

It's a circus out there, mama
and your baby's got the sideshow blues. — Todd Snider

Someone once said that blues and gospel were fraternal twins, close in spirit, neither one wanting to admit how similar they looked. — Ahmir Questlove Thompson

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want. — Justin Townes Earle

The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do. — Vance Gilbert

Spring is painted in daffodil yellows, robin egg blues, new grass green and the brightness of hope for a better life. — Toni Sorenson

I love blues. My grandfather did blues. — R. Kelly

I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman — Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else. — Howlin' Wolf

I like blue a lot, and greens. Earthy blues and greens. — Lee DeWyze

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. — Youssou N'Dour

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs. — Bob Livingston

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. — B.B. King

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards. — Janis Joplin

The blues aren't pessimistic. We're prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. — Cornel West

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. — Alexis Korner

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country. — Al Jourgensen

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues ... — John Lee Hooker

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers. — Eddie Floyd

Humor is most powerful thing that uses laughter as it base to chase your blues away. — Kareena Kapoor

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues. — Johnny Winter

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. — Jimmy Page

Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace. — Tommy Bolin

My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room. — Lisa Wingate

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys. — Brian Setzer

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. — Mahalia Jackson

It was a nephilim."
"A nephi-what?" asked Hugh, startled.
"Isn't that a character on Sesame Street?" Peter spoke up for the first time. — Richelle Mead

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing. — B.B. King

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues. — Johnny Winter

I'm using Fender Twin Reverbs and Fender Blues Devilles on stage. — Ike Turner

I am and always will be a blues guitarist — Eric Clapton

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did. — B.B. King

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew ... I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured — Amiri Baraka

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues. — Billy Collins

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs. — Gary Clark Jr.

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.
("New York Blues") — Cornell Woolrich

The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude. — Brownie McGhee

It's like Elwood Blues says: everybody needs somebody to love. I'm an everybody. I get a somebody. — Heidi Cullinan

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. — B.B. King

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.' — Teri Hatcher

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life. — Etta James

Hearing the blues changed my life. — Van Morrison

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. — Ethel Waters

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me! — Buddy Guy

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening. — Etta James

I could sit right here and think a thousand miles away, Since I had the blues this bad, I can't remember the day ... — Julio Cortazar

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. — John Mayer

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues? — Tom T. Hall

I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played. — George Carlin

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time. — Linda Barnes

I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf. — Caleb Johnson

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent. — Gary Gulman

There are only old people here. — Christie Walker Bos

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about. — Luther Allison

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything. — Eddie Vedder

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. — Barry Gibb

Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone ... The blues are all the same. — Jackson C. Frank

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing. — David Gilmour

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues. — Elton John