Blues Music Quotes

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Blues Music Quotes By Mose Allison: I never thought I was playing black music. I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid. Mose Allison
Blues Music Quotes By Brownie McGhee: Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. Brownie McGhee
Blues Music Quotes By Jack White: The fact that we elected Obama was a The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph. Jack White
Blues Music Quotes By Johnny Winter: I just hope I'm remembered as a good I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician. Johnny Winter
Blues Music Quotes By Willie Dixon: The blues has been the foundation of all The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning. Willie Dixon
Blues Music Quotes By Alvin Lee: That's the kind of musical freedom I like: That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. Alvin Lee
Blues Music Quotes By Mark Knopfler: My idea of heaven is a place where My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. Mark Knopfler
Blues Music Quotes By Edgar Winter: As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. Edgar Winter
Blues Music Quotes By David Mutti Clark: The music plays ... and your sense of The music plays ... and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream. David Mutti Clark
Blues Music Quotes By Duke Robillard: For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source Duke Robillard
Blues Music Quotes By Lykke Li: The music that I listen to is very The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals. Lykke Li
Blues Music Quotes By John Lescroart: I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. John Lescroart
Blues Music Quotes By B.J. The Chicago Kid: So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything. — B.J. The Chicago Kid
Blues Music Quotes By Nick Cave: I'm an Australian, and when I grew up I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing. — Nick Cave
Blues Music Quotes By Eric Clapton: For me there is something primitively soothing about For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall. — Eric Clapton
Blues Music Quotes By Paul Harvey: If you don't live it, you don't believe If you don't live it, you don't believe it. — Paul Harvey
Blues Music Quotes By Benjamin Booker: I guess I would call my music 'blues I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences. — Benjamin Booker
Blues Music Quotes By Jerry Leiber: Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues. — Jerry Leiber
Blues Music Quotes By Keith Richards: If you don't know the blues ... there's If you don't know the blues ... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. — Keith Richards
Blues Music Quotes By Fats Domino: Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. — Fats Domino
Blues Music Quotes By L.A. Reid: Popular music has always been rooted in the Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes. — L.A. Reid
Blues Music Quotes By B.B. King: I've said that playing the blues is like 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
Blues Music Quotes By Kid Rock: I didn't want to go out and change I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. — Kid Rock
Blues Music Quotes By Mark Knopfler: I was into playing American music, especially the I was into playing American music, especially the blues. — Mark Knopfler
Blues Music Quotes By Wynton Marsalis: We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word. — Wynton Marsalis
Blues Music Quotes By PJ Harvey: I think blues music is music of the I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way. — PJ Harvey
Blues Music Quotes By Bob Dylan: When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor. — Bob Dylan
Blues Music Quotes By Bruce Springsteen: Some of the greatest blues music is some Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. — Bruce Springsteen
Blues Music Quotes By Ozzy Osbourne: As far as we were concerned, we were As far as we were concerned, we were just a blues band that had decided to write some scary music. — Ozzy Osbourne
Blues Music Quotes By Eric Clapton: Musically, he was like an old man in Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin. — Eric Clapton
Blues Music Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut: If I should ever die, God forbid, let If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC — Kurt Vonnegut
Blues Music Quotes By Leon Redbone: The blues ain't nothing but a good man The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad. — Leon Redbone
Blues Music Quotes By Ray Charles: Rhythm and blues used to be called race Rhythm and blues used to be called race music ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. — Ray Charles
Blues Music Quotes By Steven Tyler: The blues are just a heightened sense of The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels. — Steven Tyler
Blues Music Quotes By Jimi Hendrix: The reflection of the world is blues, that's The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around. — Jimi Hendrix
Blues Music Quotes By Bryan Ferry: I loved music from the age of eight. I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley. — Bryan Ferry
Blues Music Quotes By Rahsaan Roland Kirk: What about a blues in W, in the What about a blues in W, in the key of W. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Blues Music Quotes By Kesha: I love country music, blues, and punk, and I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. — Kesha
Blues Music Quotes By Mahalia Jackson: I sing God's music because it makes me I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues. — Mahalia Jackson
Blues Music Quotes By Edgar Winter: I believe that blues and jazz are the I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music. — Edgar Winter
Blues Music Quotes By David Mutti Clark: We start our lives with blues ... with 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
Blues Music Quotes By Adrian Mitchell: I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. — Adrian Mitchell
Blues Music Quotes By Henry Rollins: In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. — Henry Rollins
Blues Music Quotes By Carla Bley: One performer whose band played my music better One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. — Carla Bley
Blues Music Quotes By Alexis Korner: I guess music, particularly the blues, is the I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. — Alexis Korner
Blues Music Quotes By B.B. King: I started to like blues, I guess, when I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music. — B.B. King
Blues Music Quotes By David Mutti Clark: I've never met God, but I've heard the I've never met God, but I've heard the blues. — David Mutti Clark
Blues Music Quotes By Aaron Neville: I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music. — Aaron Neville
Blues Music Quotes By Miles Davis: My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer. — Miles Davis
Blues Music Quotes By James Young: So, maybe you don't see blues so much So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music. — James Young
Blues Music Quotes By Ted Alexandro: The blues is a hopeful music. It helps The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro
Blues Music Quotes By Youssou N'Dour: When the slaves left Africa, they left us When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. — Youssou N'Dour
Blues Music Quotes By Al Jourgensen: I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection 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
Blues Music Quotes By Howlin' Wolf: I don't play anything but the blues, but 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
Blues Music Quotes By Peter Tork: Pop music is aspirin and the blues are Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins. — Peter Tork
Blues Music Quotes By Justin Townes Earle: I didn't get into music to become a 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
Blues Music Quotes By Vance Gilbert: The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do. — Vance Gilbert
Blues Music Quotes By Etta James: To me, country music is like the blues, 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
Blues Music Quotes By Linda Barnes: Singers come and go; the music business waxes Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time. — Linda Barnes
Blues Music Quotes By Barry Gibb: I like blues but it is music I I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. — Barry Gibb
Blues Music Quotes By John Mayer: Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. — John Mayer
Blues Music Quotes By Bill Medley: The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. — Bill Medley
Blues Music Quotes By Langston Hughes: Blues had the pulse beat of the people Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going. — Langston Hughes
Blues Music Quotes By James Weldon Johnson: It is from the blues that all that It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. — James Weldon Johnson
Blues Music Quotes By Alberta Hunter: The musicians that didn't know music could play The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me. — Alberta Hunter
Blues Music Quotes By Brandi L. Bates: On my John Coltrane. In a sentimental mood. On my John Coltrane. In a sentimental mood. — Brandi L. Bates
Blues Music Quotes By Ronnie Wood: The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues. — Ronnie Wood
Blues Music Quotes By Charlie Musselwhite: It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head. — Charlie Musselwhite
Blues Music Quotes By Johnny Ramistella: If you're going to get into music, you've If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues. — Johnny Ramistella
Blues Music Quotes By Carmen McRae: Blues is to jazz what yeast is to Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread
without it, it's flat. — Carmen McRae
Blues Music Quotes By Maya Angelou: All riddles are blues, / And all blues All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had. — Maya Angelou
Blues Music Quotes By Elizabeth Jagger: I've been listening to quite a lot of I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues. — Elizabeth Jagger
Blues Music Quotes By Jeff Chain: If blues culture had developed under the conditions If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work — Jeff Chain
Blues Music Quotes By Ato Essandoh: I grew up listening to blues and rock I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world. — Ato Essandoh
Blues Music Quotes By Odetta: The blues is celebration, because when you take The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it. — Odetta
Blues Music Quotes By Brian Eno: Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is. — Brian Eno
Blues Music Quotes By David Byrne: You might say that the universe plays the You might say that the universe plays the blues. — David Byrne
Blues Music Quotes By Benjamin Booker: I've grown up on gospel and blues music, I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am. — Benjamin Booker
Blues Music Quotes By Willie Dixon: The blues will always be because the blues The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music. — Willie Dixon